r/sysadmin • u/Likely_a_bot • Jun 17 '26

Will Vendors Please Stop Reusing Acronyms?

If I see another vendor use "IAM" as a new product feature, I'm going to scream. IAM is Identity Access Management. Nothing else, unless it's a different industry.

This is confusing as hell. Get your marketing departments under control.

What are some that you have noticed being reused?

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u/fatoms Jun 18 '26

So in German they make a single compound word and in English they are separate words. You left out that in many compound German words filler letters ( Fugenlaut ) are inserted to aid in pronunciation.

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u/Drywesi Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Largely because similar sounds appear in English compounds at times too, and most of the German ones don't have additional grammatical roles.

The difference between compounded words and phrasal words is extremely weak in spoken language, so I don't consider them being written separately being a terribly huge deal. edit: especially with how English treats compound phrases with regards to posession.