rhkramer@gmail.com writes:
On Sunday, September 26, 2021 08:45:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 07:00:06AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > > Well, to be fair to Google, the first two or three hits did show FAOD, > > but without explaining what it meant -- those sites that you have to > > actually go to to find the meaning. I skipped over those to find a hit > > that actually included the meaning, and the first (and next) one(s) I > > found were for FOAD, and I didn't notice the difference. > > Fascinating. My first page results from Google were all of this form: > > What are long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders (LC-FAOD)? > https://www.faodinfocus.com › learn-about-lc-faod > LC-FAOD are rare, genetic metabolic disorders that prevent the body from > breaking down long-chain fatty acids into energy during metabolism. > > This is obviously wrong in this context. > > The entire first page consisted solely of results like this, so I didn't > even bother going to page 2. Hmm, I don't remember the eact google query I tried, I might have donesomething like [define: FAOD slang] or something similar (maybe "acronym", butmaybe more likely "slang").
Trying to find out what the fuss was about, my first query was FAOD urban dictionary which yielded 1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Faod (not helpful) 2. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=foad Like rhkramer, I did not notice that the letters were intermingled. When entering FAOD I get results similar to Greg's. When entering FAOD meaning(as suggested by Google for related searches), I get this among the top results:
https://www.acronymfinder.com/Slang/FAOD.html That, finally, explains it.Most of the time, I try to stick to acronyms that are found in "The Jargon File" (package `jargon`) because these seem to have a pretty agreed-upon meaning :)
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