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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 01:00:25 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   People on here and on other networks often use CDN to refer to Canada, which I have found confusing. People use it for e.g. hashtags like #'cdnpol or #'cdnmedia .

   I finally looked it up and according to a random commenter on a page[0] on The Guardian's website and according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internat… (marked "citation needed") it's for the Canadian DominioN.

   In the Olympics, Canada is CAN.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

   The ISO alpha-3 code is also CAN.
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166…

   So it seems it's really just the car sticker thing that got this peculiar abbreviation. And now social media.

   [0] theguardian.com/notesandquerie…

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 01:39:32 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      Now that I've done a bit of a search and post, maybe I'll more easily read CDN as Canada next time instead of being initially confused and wondering what kind of topic "content delivery network media" is supposed to be.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:34:53 EST lnxw48a1

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      @clacke I've usually seen "CDN" in one of two contexts: Money, as in "Tim Horton's pays its employees CDN$4.50 per hour"; or hashtags, as in "#CDNPol" ... But you're right that it makes things confusing.
      
      How does one know which abbreviation to use in which context. Maybe we should just use "FZN" for "Frozen Northland". (I'm joking.)
      
      CC: @bobjonkman
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 02:36:15 EST lnxw48a1

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         By the way, if you're a lawyer for Tim Horton's, I don't have any idea how much they really pay their employees. Don't bother sending threatening letters. It was just a made-up example.
      2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 04:36:47 EST Bob Jonkman

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         Oh, now you're just confusing things even more. I was going to reply to @clacke's original post that I've seen both CDNpoli and slightly fewer CANpoli hashtags (I subscribe to both), as well as CNDpoli -- probably for "Canada Poli".
         
         But now @lnxw48a1 pops in with *currency* abbreviations, and that's properly represented as $4.50CAD (maybe "CAnadian Dollar"?)
         
         So should there also be a CADpoli?
         
         --Bob.
         1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:12:53 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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            @Bob Jonkman @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} perhaps cadpol if it's about monetary policy. 😊
      3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:11:22 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @Bob Jonkman When I write about different currencies, I never use the strange $nnn format, much less e.g. HK$nnn, it never made sense to me.

         Keep it as a local convention when it's obvious which $, fine, same with "nnn kr" for Swedish crowns, but in international comparisons, I wish everyone could treat currencies as normal units and use the international symbols, like 100 USD = 780 HKD = 100 EUR = 1000 SEK, instead of US$100 = HK$780 = 100 EUR = 1000 kr.