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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 speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i18n I know it's not technically an acronym but what a fucking obscure way to write a word that's going to be constantly around non-english speakers. All the other ones in this family are also quite obnoxious but i18n is especially awful.

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[–] chowdertailz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

FFS. As in, for fucks sake, we all know it's FFS?!

Edit: sorry, drunk after work and reread the question. FFS is my fav.

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[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YMMV. That one took me FOREVER to figure out.

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[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

After 20 years in EMS, (see how it starts immediately - Emergency Medical Services), The whole bloody damned field is nothing but acronyms for as far as the eye can see.

From BPM - Beats per minute, to ABC - Airway, Breathing, circulation, (which today is more like ACB - Airway, Circulation, Breathing) to OPQRST - Onset, provoke/pallation, Quality, Region/Radiation, Severity, Time to A-Fib - Atrial Fibrillation to SOB - Shortness of Breath.

I hate them all........

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WDYM...

I don't know why, it just looks unpleasant.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

ATM. Friends use it for 'at the moment', but all I see is ass-to-mouth.

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[–] Hammerheart@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It bothers me when OO doesnt stand for "object oriented"

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

iirc just because i dont know what it means

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 years ago

iirc it means "if I recall/remember correctly"

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

PICNIC. problem in chair, not in computer.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

GABOS.

Prison lingo. Acronym for 'Game Ain't Based On Sympathy," first heard in the Louis Theroux documentary "Miami Mega Jail".

Louie: Don't... don't you feel sympathy for that person? For that other inmate you extorted?

Inmate: GABOS, man... GABOS.

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[–] catacomb@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

obscure corporate jargon like KPIs (key performance indicators), KRIs (key risk indicators) which, after having thrown them at me during an interview for a college intern position, made the interviewer wonder why i got so flustered. i would hesitate to throw any acronyms around in any interview, let alone for a college student.

by the way, i got the internship. the acronyms weren't even used in my position.

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