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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I don’t know what that emoji means, sorry. Have you never encountered this before? Acronyms sometimes transition into their own words that are divorced from the original meaning.

ATM originally meant automated teller machine, but after it took on its own separate word identity, people started adding in machine. It’s weird If you know the original acronym, but it’s a natural phenomenon.