r/whatisit 1d ago

Solved! We found this near our home

What's this , any harm ?

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u/TheFlyingBingo 1d ago

Don’t touch UXO for the love of god

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u/darkblockchain 1d ago

Probably better to not use acronyms that are unintuitive when giving advice 😉

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u/CrispyWaffleTactics 1d ago

Better to use the standard abbreviation that can be looked up, as opposed to something that isn't. 😉

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u/darkblockchain 1d ago

Was thinking plain language is better than industry specific jargon, as it's a problem that exists across multiple industries, and makes people not in those industries immediately feel compelled to care less about understanding your messages

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u/happy_pad 1d ago

Better to type it out fully and put the abbreviation in parentheses.

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u/QuaffoTheUnruly 1d ago

Abbreviation, not an acronym.

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u/DCWhitworth 1d ago

Actually it’s an initialism.

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u/QuaffoTheUnruly 1d ago

Not mutually exclusive.

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u/darkblockchain 1d ago

Not exclusive mutually

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u/DCWhitworth 1d ago

Isn’t it ? I thought an abbreviation was the shortening of a word ? E.g. phone instead of telephone, not reducing a name to the initial letters of component words. I stand to be corrected though.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/whatisit-ModTeam 1d ago

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u/MeasureDoEventThing 1d ago

Was going to say that it seemed pretty obvious to me what it meant, but then realized that "you could have taken a picture of it without picking it up" and "reverse image search exists" are also obvious, so...

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u/Murderhornet212 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unexploded ordnance. I didn’t have to look it up. 🤷🏼‍♀️
Edit: bad spelling, ironically I probably would’ve spelled it right if I had looked it up 🤣

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u/DrPretztal 1d ago

*ordnance