ATM or ATM machine

[Agentt]

DO you think someone will figure out that saying ATM machine is tiring so they will abbreviate it to ATMM?

 

[BenJepheneT]

It's all the same to me when I'm prying it with a crowbar.

 

[LilRora]

Isn't ATM an abbreviation for automated teller machine or something? Why would you add another machine to that?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[Puji-Maki]

ATM... Probably

 

[Agentt]

Isn't ATM an abbreviation for automated teller machine or something? Why would you add another machine to that?

Yes, but many people, including me; call it the ATM machine, despite knowing the M stands for a machine. Kinda like how my biology teacher calls it BLAST tool, despite the T standing for tool

 

[Aaqil]

Kinda like how my biology teacher calls it BLAST tool, despite the T standing for tool

"BLAST" is an acronym that could mean a number of things, as well as it just being a word,
An initialism like "ATM" holds too much uniqueness for it to be mistaken for something else,

 

[AliceShiki]

There's no abbreviation for ATM in my country, so we just refer to it by its full name~

 

[BenJepheneT]

There's no abbreviation for ATM in my country, so we just refer to it by its full name~

This is proof that Alice is a magical girl since any culture that refers to ATM by its full name is probably insane and drink potions with frog legs in them.

 

[FGCCheckmate]

ATM Machine
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[NotaNuffian]

ATM Machine
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Damn.

People do be redundant out there.

 

[Zirrboy]

Damn.

People do be redundant out there.

Prepare to be quoted out of context.

 

[SuperHeiyan]

We call it Bank'o'mate instead.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Prepare to be quoted out of context.

At least I have a quote to be used.

 

[AliceShiki]

This is proof that Alice is a magical girl since any culture that refers to ATM by its full name is probably insane and drink potions with frog legs in them.

Tbh, over here the name is shorter.

Like... There is this part of the bank we refer to as the "Caixa", which is where you talk to people to like... Well, make transactions, get money and whatnot.

Then there are the machines that allow you to do all that without talking to someone, which we refer to as "Caixa Eletrônico" (eletronico = electric).

So, ATM to us isn't a weird acronym that nobody knows, but instead a fairly intuitive way of refer to the place you get money from... And we only use 2 words instead of 3.

So yeah, that's how it works over here~

 

[georgelee5786]

I can them magic money machines with trolls holding big bags of money inside them

 

[ThrillingHuman]

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Eh, it works without being a tautology

 

[WeissBlatt]

My friend calls them "thieves".

 

[HellerFeed]

ATM is actually 'Any Time Money' Machine

 

[Aaqil]

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I've never seen anyone refer to the last two like that,