That's because he doesn't mean acronym, he means portmanteau.
To paraphrase that famous quote, Maxtronaut, with regards to acronym "you keep using that word. It does not mean what you think it means..."
The former is a word made up of the initials of other words (e.g. "Aotrs"), and a portmanteau is a word made up by combining two (or more) other words - as is the case commonly used in shipping, such as here.
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Well, if people will blindly refuse to believe me when I tell 'em things...
Funnily enough, I have been ruminating on crawlingly dead (pun unitended) the thread seems lately. I assume this is due to the seperate RPG thread at least in part; though I suspect that the absense of Thanqol and SiuiS plays a large part in that too...