While I would normally agree fully with you, it’s very clear from the context that ZAUM is the company behind the game Disco Elysium. What the letters stand for, if anything, is pretty irrelevant. Using IBM as an example, most people don’t know or care what it stands for, it’s an identifier on its own.
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Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You should really define an acronym before you use it the first time.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
ZA/UM is the studio behind Disco Elysium, one of the most critically acclaimed and highest rated games of all time.
Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Ya know, I feel like a jerk, and I apologize.
They themselves don’t even say what it stands for on the front of their webpage, so I guess they want to be known by that. Hey, you’re allowed to be called what you want.
Still feels weird to me, but I am stopping my judgement.
Also, my apologies to OP.
afansfw@lemmynsfw.com 18 hours ago
On Wikipedia it says it is a name of a Russian constructed language
“Kurvitz established the ZA/UM team to create the game, using the name “za um”, a reference to the Zaum constructed language created by Russian avant-garde poets in the early 1900s. Its name can be read in Russian as a shortcut for the idiom взяться за ум (vzyat’sya za um), which is similar to the English idea of bootstrapping. The use of all-capitals and the slash symbol is to present the team as “something that definitely exists and weighs eight tonnes”.”
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was thinking the same thing, thanks for taking the hit for us.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I don’t think it stands for anything.