Post #3441920

2026-06-20 19:16 UTC

I need someone to dereference that initialism. In general, it’s a really great idea to be like journos and dereference initialisms on first use if they can be at all novel or ambiguous.

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@poolcritter@pawb.social 2026-06-21 03:32

SCP technically stands for Secure, Contain, Protect; however, the acronym is much more well-known.

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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-06-21 07:11

In this case, SCP is more or less a name on its own. Originally, it referred to the descriptions of how a particular anomaly is to be handled and treated (Standard Containment Procedures), then as the setting got formalised, it became both the name of the SCP-Foundation and a backronym for their motto (Secure, Contain, Protect), and for referring to the anomalies (generally pronounced Scip, with individual anomalies usually referred to by their procedures’ number or some variation defined in it). So if you’re talking about, say, SCP-173, it really is just part of the name. Dereferencing it doesn’t make much sense, since both the motto and the document don’t really fit the object.

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