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

submitted 2 years 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 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gordon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've even heard people say "Double-yoos dot", and even that compressed version is still more syllables than the full thing.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I hate all TLAs

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I see BLM, my first thought is still Bureau of Land Management

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[–] Moira_Mayhem@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

PCMCIA but we don't need to use it much nowadays

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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

One that always confuses me is MSM. For over 40 years it has been used to mean "Men who have sex with men", but recently conservatives started using it to mean "mainstream media" and its sometimes hard to tell which of their hates they are talking about. MSM is still widely used in the medical community when discussing/classifying patients and in the ongoing AIDS epidemic.

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What, no votes for 'goatse'?

I'll uh show myself to the logout button now

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Either FR or PFP. "FR" just feels like another filler word. PFP... I'm too used to calling them "avatars", it just feels wrong and superfluous. I'm probably aging myself here.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Im with you on that one. I dunno where PFP came from, but it always strikes me as weird to call it that. I would just call it an avatar.

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