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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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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"www" for World Wide Web has always bugged me. World Wide Web is three syllables, WWW is nine.

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[–] ouRKaoS 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I have a weird thing where I'll know an acronym that's close to another one, confuse the two, and come up with a new acronym that doesn't exist or make sense, but it "works" and then the rest of the context is just off.

The latest victim of this is "Assigned Cis At Birth"

Now that that's out in the world, I'm sorry that someone else is going to do the same thing...

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[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

IKR required a search to figure out. Autocorrect takes care of these typical phrases. Imo the only one I like to use is imo for some reason.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I hate LFG because gamers can't agree on how to spell it or what it means... Sometimes it's spelled LFP, LFF or LFM... And sometimes it means "Looking for Guild".

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isnt LFM looking for member? Like if you have part of a group already together and just need a healer lets say. I'd say its different than LFG which in my mind is a player looking for a group

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[–] JackSkellington@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

My least favourite acronym:

AUTMA: Americans use too many acronyms

[–] johnjamesautobahn@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

ICYMI (in case you missed it) and IYKYK (if you know, you know) which frequently get crossed in my head

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[–] marco@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Worst: TLA

Best: WOMBAT

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