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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fully liberatedf open source software? As in, the code has forcefully been taken away from the original coder?

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Putting free/liber into an abbreviation, now we can not only shorten it but make it multi language at once

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The two words don't mean the same though?

[–] omidmnz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tney do. The first one causes confusion without context, the second one is a much rarer word. I hate the situasion we've gotten ourselves into, but it is what it is.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No 'liber' means - at least if we assume the meaning for other written works - that it's public record. Unless we meant to say 'libre', but then the british immediately start screeching because french words. 'free' means that it's free, it costs nothing. Hence the two can go together, meaning that:

It costs nothing.
It's publicly available.

But yeah it sucks. Weird bullshit abbreviation bingo to play.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 10 months ago

I always liked the comparison of free beer vs free speech. Free/libre is just a bit less clunky than saying no-charge and available.