I've a nagging feeling I've got worse with some mistakes after seeing them so often. (Or maybe only now become aware of them.) I know very much what you mean.
On the other hand, it might be time to try to bring some redundanyms back into the fold. People haven't objected to putting an article before "algebra" for a thousand years. Saying "I WAG guess" would be plainly wrong.
But "PIN" has become quite a phrase on its own, nearly at the point where its meaning is divorced from its combination. If you say "personal identification number" by its own, that can be quite ambiguous. People have started making PINs which are not personal, and certainly don't identify anything, and it's only a matter of time before they're not a number. So might quite legitimately want to modify "number" with "PIN", like "American American football" sounds dumb, but how else do you distinguish it from Japanese American Football?
Perhaps there ought to be a short conjunction meaning "I am repeating this word for a good reason", say, "fa", and you could say:
"Please fa RSVP" "A personal identification fa PIN number" "American fa american football"[1]
[1] That one is plainly correct, but "fa" has to be able to be used in those circumstanced too, because the whole point is when people might disagree.
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On the other hand, it might be time to try to bring some redundanyms back into the fold. People haven't objected to putting an article before "algebra" for a thousand years. Saying "I WAG guess" would be plainly wrong.
But "PIN" has become quite a phrase on its own, nearly at the point where its meaning is divorced from its combination. If you say "personal identification number" by its own, that can be quite ambiguous. People have started making PINs which are not personal, and certainly don't identify anything, and it's only a matter of time before they're not a number. So might quite legitimately want to modify "number" with "PIN", like "American American football" sounds dumb, but how else do you distinguish it from Japanese American Football?
Perhaps there ought to be a short conjunction meaning "I am repeating this word for a good reason", say, "fa", and you could say:
"Please fa RSVP"
"A personal identification fa PIN number"
"American fa american football"[1]
[1] That one is plainly correct, but "fa" has to be able to be used in those circumstanced too, because the whole point is when people might disagree.