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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them

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US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them

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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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After years of back and forth, USPS has finally put its new electric "NGDV" trucks into service, and drivers say they love the new trucks.
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    This article does that annoying thing where it uses acronyms Initialisms without previously using the full verbiage at least once.

    BEV - Battery-Electric Vehicle

    NGDV - Next Generation Delivery Vehicle

    LLV - Long Life Vehicle

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      Initialisms, technically. But thank you nevertheless.

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        TIL about initialisms, which are like acronyms but when you pronounce the initial letters individually instead of like a spelled out word. DVD being an initialism, versus SCUBA being an acronym.

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        Eh, BEV could go either way

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          Who the hell calls a BEV a woman’s name?

          Bev sounds like you’re shortening Beverly. BEV and you know it’s a vehicle.

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            Good point, why say BEV when you could say BEV

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              TOMATO vs [tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾoʊ]

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        And yet there’s no <initialism> html tag, and it hurts me.

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        fixed ty

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      To translate further:

      BEV - self explanatory never mind

      NGDV - Oshkosh Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, The new mail truck that looks like a duck

      LLV - The Grumman Long Life Vehicle, the classic mail truck.

      and as a bonus

      FFV - The Ford-Utilimaster Flexible Fuel Vehicle, the early 2000s mail truck that looks like the LLV that you buy from wish.

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      Wtf

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      To be fair I immediately assumed NGDV was Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. idk how, I just did

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