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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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[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not me but my spouse hates recursive ones, like GNU. Hates them so much, active vocal expressions of dislike. Anyways the setting I'm making is filthy with recursive acronyms for no reason.

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

WINE Is Not an Emulator

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

like?? where did the 'G' even come from??

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the GNU part, silly

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

GNU expands to GNU's Not Unix, which includes the acronym GNU, which expands to GNU's Not Unix, which includes the acronym GNU, which expands to ...

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I hate those too, it just feels like whoever make them is like "hehe I'm SOOOOO clever hehe" but it's not clever. It's confusing and dumb lol.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

In car circles, Miata owners often say that Miata stands for "Miata Is Always The Answer"