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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've been told what it means yet every time I see it my brain goes "for the...." and I can't figure out the last 2 letters. And I have to look it up to be reminded that it means "fixed that for you". But every time I forget and I have to look it up again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck That, Fuck You

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Haha I love that

But Fuck that & Fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe you’re more of an ft4u kinda guy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Same.

For the fucking year?

Free Eggos ftfy! Alright!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

For the fiscal year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's used so frequently for offences that I'm not surprised at that.