My hobby is banning new acronyms at Terraform by deliberately expanding them into the wrong, but commonly accepted, meaning.
11:24 AM · Jun 18, 2026 · 7.9K Views
Terraform Industries founder Casey Handmer discourages new corporate acronyms by deliberately expanding them into incorrect but common terms
Creator Anna Gát proposed adopting the communication rule nationwide
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Users dismissed acronyms as seriously stupid in reaction to the Terraform founder's ban on new ones via deliberate misexpansions.
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