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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] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

PCMCIA but we don't need to use it much nowadays

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What, no votes for 'goatse'?

I'll uh show myself to the logout button now

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When I see BLM, my first thought is still Bureau of Land Management

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

Let's see how many of these the decronym bot knows

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