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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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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

i18n I know it's not technically an acronym but what a fucking obscure way to write a word that's going to be constantly around non-english speakers. All the other ones in this family are also quite obnoxious but i18n is especially awful.

[–] Maestro@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's a11y and l10n. What else is there?

[–] max@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Somewhat similar: k8s

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

Kubernetes is fine because it's easy to keep track of, it looks and pronounces similar to the real word.

O11y for "observability", though, that one's pretty rough. And people trying to make the pronunciation "ollie" make me see red.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Kates

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

What's a11y?

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 5 points 10 months ago

"Accessibility." It mainly refers to computer accessibility (like websites and apps). Ironic that a common word for accessibility is inaccessible to people who don't know what it means

[–] Maestro@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Accessibility

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I learned about a11y like a year ago, and thought it was 1337 speak for ally until I looked it up, and only then (like 20 years after first seeing it) did I realize what i18n meant.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never heard of that one, what is it and when would it be used?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Internationalization, basically making your thing accessible in other languages and cultural customs (like twelve and a half being 12,5 and anything related to fucking dates).

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

We will never know...

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a numeronym!

I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn't figured out yet. "'eye-eighteen-ehn' isn't too far from 'internationalization', I guess"