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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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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

PEBKAC

Every time that I see this acronym I'm tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember "ah, it isn't Cyrillic".

[-] CookieMonsterDebate@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Would that mean anything if it were?

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, but simply looking for something and then remembering that it doesn't exist makes me feel stupid.

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