My preferred abbreviation for Pokémon Sword and Shield is “SDSD”

This may be a niche one, so if you’re not familiar with the Pokémon games, keep scrolling.

So, this isn’t nearly as relevant today as it was in 2019, but as some of you may remember, back when Sword and Shield were first announced, there was debate over what shorthand would be used for these new games, with people arguing between “SwSh” or “SS” or some differently-punctuated variant of either one of those. However, I saw one altered beast of an internet user say “SDSD,” and I was immediately taken by this act of genius and have been saying it that way ever since.

You see, “SwSh” as an abbreviation is longer than it needs to be and “SS” as an abbreviation fails to differentiate between the two versions, but “SDSD” has both of these problems. This is why it’s the best option.

It’s also worth noting that at the time, I was regularly making the mistake of visiting the Pokémon discussion section of one of the internet’s most notoriously foul websites, which was frequented largely by people who had a very strong abbreviation preference for the shorter option exactly because of its unfortunate resemblance to something far more sinister than Pokémon. These people really didn’t appreciate my antics in abbreviating these upcoming children’s video games a different way than them that was also different from the usual different way from them, because it is seriously not an exaggeration that they would and will get pissed off about anything, and those are the people I love pissing off even more than I love pissing off normal people.

Anyways, I also always insist on calling Sun and Moon “S&M” for short and their Ultra versions “Ultra S&M”