I went from the article directly to the HN comments to learn the acronyms and lo, there an author had posted them for an intended technical audience of HN&#x27;ers analogously to the blog&#x27;s author writing for their intended audience. Alas, the comments to the comment had devolved from informing a technical audience to non-denominational internet argument for argument&#x27;s sake. The mere possibility of a slight slight doesn&#x27;t justify provoking a pissing contest.<p>The present pop psychology pathologizing of parent poster&#x27;s purpose hardly makes the proposed proposition of &quot;you&quot;&#x27;s previous use as primarily a literary device particularly plausible. But at least there is no pretence that it was primarily a charitable or polite reading.