IIUYC = If I Understand You Correctly
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Maybe we should only explain MB related stuff and encourage people writing full words, somehow.
This one has only one occurrence.
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This.
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Apparently, two consecutive abbreviations are not working with the plugin.
odd are OK but even are NG: RG RG RG RG RG RG RG RG
Interesting… 
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might be good to add this one~
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another one to add to the list?
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In MB context, this is not the English name for the Famicom TV game console (Nintendo entertainment system), no, this is the new edit system abandoned project.
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for what it’s worth, it could be referring to the Nintendo Entertainment System, as video game music is within the scope of MusicBrainz. might do a double abbreviation for this one~
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I don’t know if there’s any fixing this one, but the abbreviation detection seems to ignore non-basic-Latin characters, like ‘æ’
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I think I have a fix for this in Fix non-latin characters being considered word-boundaries by phw · Pull Request #6 · metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words · GitHub
@zas Is this something you can merge and update in Discourse?
Don’t know if it qualifies for a fancy mouse-over, but if anyone’s wondering:
OG = Original Gangster, usually used to refer to the original/first version of something
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If you want that you may also want YG, Young Gangsta
I am very hip and street
another addition, SC for SoundCloud
might add BC for Bandcamp and AM for Apple Music while we’re here? (granted, those two also have alternate meanings, for years Before Christ and Amplitude Modulation for radio respectively)
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SC can also stand for Sens Critique, a website whose users often cross-post releases to MB.
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LLM for Large Language Model because I know at least one person asked what it meant.
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BGM is BackGround Music
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I didn’t know that ofc means “of course”, thank you @chaban.
It is used from time to time, not a lot: 27 results in the forums.
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