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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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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I hate LFG because gamers can't agree on how to spell it or what it means... Sometimes it's spelled LFP, LFF or LFM... And sometimes it means "Looking for Guild".

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[–] JackSkellington@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

My least favourite acronym:

  • AUTMA: Americans use too many acronyms
[–] johnjamesautobahn@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ICYMI (in case you missed it) and IYKYK (if you know, you know) which frequently get crossed in my head

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[–] marco@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Like all of them, I never remember what they mean and there are some people at work who love to use em. It just makes meetings take longer and emails become less legible.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.

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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

One that always confuses me is MSM. For over 40 years it has been used to mean "Men who have sex with men", but recently conservatives started using it to mean "mainstream media" and its sometimes hard to tell which of their hates they are talking about. MSM is still widely used in the medical community when discussing/classifying patients and in the ongoing AIDS epidemic.

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What, no votes for 'goatse'?

I'll uh show myself to the logout button now

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