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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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[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 52 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My least favorite is IANAL (no pun intended), my favorite is RTFM, I use it a lot!

BofA is ugly but it's mainly a US thing, no one else uses it.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lots of people use bofa! >!bofa deez nuts!<

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Spoiler tags work a little different here. Try this:

lots of people use bofa! bofa deez nuts!

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

the tags I used work fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 18 points 10 months ago

Gotcha. The tags didn't render for me (I'm using Jerboa on Android)

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

They don't work on the Lemmy website, I guess your app is doing non-standard stuff

[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 months ago

That's not official though

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can only read it as "I Anal" and the teenage boy in me giggles and I forget what I am reading.

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

Get him out of you RIGHT NOW

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do they mean?