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

submitted 1 year 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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[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 year ago

Might be unpopular, but as a non-English native I hate that Americans need to abbreviate everything into acronyms. POSTUS, SCOTUS, AWOL, ASAP. If it's not catchy as an abbreviation it needs a new name. I don't mind it so much in small settings, but when you read anything about America and all the comments are full of acronyms it's like a puzzle I never asked for.

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[-] bestusername@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

World Wide Web is simpler than Double U Double U Double U.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

MAP, no rebranding that. Defend that shit and get in line with the rest of them and jump in feet first.

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[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago

WYD and IKR

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