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.

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    MVP. It means two things, both are polar opposites. Absolute bare minium product, or most valuable player / product.

  • TheEntity@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Either FR or PFP. “FR” just feels like another filler word. PFP… I’m too used to calling them “avatars”, it just feels wrong and superfluous. I’m probably aging myself here.

    • criitz@reddthat.com
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      9 months ago

      Im with you on that one. I dunno where PFP came from, but it always strikes me as weird to call it that. I would just call it an avatar.

  • kux@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    SQL when pronounced as sequel. Squall or even squirrel would have been nicer imo

    • survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      Ive worked with tons of DB devs and admins. Nobody really seems to care. A bunch of us say “sequel” and a bunch of us say “ess cue ell”, even in the same answer-and-response in a conversation and nobody seems to bat an eye. You’ll get a comment or a smirk if you say “squirrel” or “squeal”, but that’s about it.

  • catacomb@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I had an interview for an internship at an engineering company. They sort of forgot they were interviewing for an internship, or they unconsciously framed it as a job interview.

      At some point they were like “Well besides a fascination with transportation and an ability to learn quickly, what would you actually bring the team?”

      And I said “Not much. I’m a college sophomore”

      They laughed and I got the internship. Great company.

  • VodkaSolution @feddit.it
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    9 months ago

    My least favorite is IANAL (no pun intended), my favorite is RTFM, I use it a lot!

    BofA is ugly but it’s mainly a US thing, no one else uses it.

  • Chahk@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    I’m with Norm on this: “ID” is stupid. “I” stands for “i” and “D” stands for “dentification”.

  • Blackout@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    My favorite is GIF cause we all agree how it’s pronounced, no confusion there. If you think it’s said the other way you are wrong and very stupid.

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Gif
      Gift
      Gifford

      Giraffe
      Giant
      Gist

      If anyone can come up with a word that starts with GIF that uses the J sound I’d be happy to learn what it is, but all the GIF words I can think of use the G sound.

  • Codex@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    POS I find very funny as I’m often working on Point-of-Sale equipment, and most of it is running Poorly Optimized Software, making the whole thing a Piece of Shit for the users.

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    As a kid, I was in the room at one point while my mom was watching some TV show, maybe law and order or something similar. I heard somebody letting somebody else know (verbally) the details of some victim and described the cause of injury or death or whatever as “GSW”. I asked my mom what GSW meant. She said “gun shot wound”. I said that that couldn’t possibly be right, and she was curious why. I said because “gun shot wound” is 3 syllables and “GSW” is 5; it’s literally quicker to say the full thing.

    So yeah, GSW is fucking stupid when said aloud, and even me as a dumbass child knew that.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      IANAL but you should RTFM because PEBKAC.

      (IANAL is my favorite ever acronym because it’s funny dammit… I was just looking for an excuse to sneak it in somewhere in this thread. RTFM is a fine acronym but I have such a negative association with it because it’s almost exclusively used by assholes. PEBKAC is just an elitist acronym whenever not used ironically.)

  • DosDude👾@retrolemmy.com
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    9 months 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.