Talk:RAS syndrome

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Actual redundancy?

I'm not convinced that RAS syndrome is always an actual redundancy: Sometimes acronyms have two completely different meanings in very different contexts. 60.250.123.228 (talk) 16:41, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RAS syndrome is not about multiple meanings of the same acronym. It is about redundancy -- repeating the last word of the expansion. Stevebroshar (talk) 07:04, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RAS syndrome is an actual redundancy when the context for RAS is the syndrome being discussed in this article. If the context for RAS is, for example, Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS syndrome doesn't make any sense. In almost every reasonable context, RAS syndrome will be redundant. HalJor (talk) 05:02, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

“OPEC countries”

I don’t think that “OPEC countries” counts as RAS syndrome in the same sense as the other examples: the head of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries is “Organisation” rather than “Countries”, and so OPEC refers to the organisation itself, rather than its constituent countries.

by Xsanda (visit my talk page) 11:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to agree, but it's in a direct quote. — Chrisahn (talk) 11:10, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]