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Sentence #26112

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Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen November 2, 2017 November 2, 2017 at 6:20:52 PM UTC link Permalink

LCD = liquid-crystal display. The word “display” is already part of the abbreviation, so I suppose it should be just “LCDs”.

AlanF_US AlanF_US November 12, 2017 November 12, 2017 at 5:25:54 PM UTC link Permalink

This is an example of "RAS syndrome" ("redundant abbreviation syndrome syndrome") and in fact is mentioned explicitly on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

I would argue that "LCD" has become a term in itself, and people no longer analyze the constituent words. Furthermore, one might think of an "LCD" as a display element, even though that's not the original meaning of the phrase. For those reasons, and because "LCD displays" is so common in writing as well as speech, I'm going to mark the existing sentence OK.

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You can't see too well with these LCD displays.

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