It's not just online that this happens. I was listening to some people talk on DMR ham radio last night, on Talkgroup 91 Worldwide. (DMR is a digital voice mode used in commercial and amateur radio, and talkgroups let you talk with people who are on the same talkgroup, roughly akin to tuning into a common frequency.)
John Miklor jumped into the conversation; he has a website [1] where he reviews various handheld and mobile radios.
Someone else jumped in and started thanking John for the good work he does "reviewing ChiCom radios." He kept saying ChiCom over and over again and I started wondering what he was talking about. I thought he must mean radios made by Chinese Companies like Baofeng, AnyTone, or Wouxun.
It slowly dawned on me that this was not what he meant at all. He was talking about Chinese Communist radios!
I guess I'm writing this on my Chinese Communist ThinkPad!
John Miklor jumped into the conversation; he has a website [1] where he reviews various handheld and mobile radios.
Someone else jumped in and started thanking John for the good work he does "reviewing ChiCom radios." He kept saying ChiCom over and over again and I started wondering what he was talking about. I thought he must mean radios made by Chinese Companies like Baofeng, AnyTone, or Wouxun.
It slowly dawned on me that this was not what he meant at all. He was talking about Chinese Communist radios!
I guess I'm writing this on my Chinese Communist ThinkPad!
[1] http://www.miklor.com