I feel SO dumb right now 😭
I was watching a counterstrike video (I don’t play CS) and the youtuber said “…who is one of the best North America players…” while a statistics page showed kill/death, win/loss, etc. But it also showed “NA”. This along with the verbal “North America” was enough for the very lazy neurons in my brain finally make a basic connection that those two things are connected. I always assumed it just meant “somewhere we don’t have an abbreviation for” or “location private” or something.
“Not applicable” is typically abbreviated n/a or N/A but I guess reading it aloud would sound the same as NA
plus sometimes they only allocate two characters
Reading aloud I’d usually still say “not applicable”
Frustratingly, I’ve seen it shortened to NA several times