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All posts need to have the same title: me_irl it is allowed to use an emoji instead of the underscore _
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What does Z.E.R.O stand for?
I think they were using the technique of adding periods for emphasis:
AS. IN. THE. CASE. OF. NORMAL. SENTENCES.
They must have missed that that's not the way you'd emphasize a word by spelling it, and should instead have typed Z-E-R-O.