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

submitted 11 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] 53 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Ftfy always becomes "fuck that, fuck you" in my head.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't change much apart from the aggression

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Even that hadn't changed much.

[–] CurlyMoustache 3 points 11 months ago

I like this one better. FTFY

[–] 0_0j 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What does it translate to IRL? Edit: fixed that for you

[–] Crackhappy 6 points 11 months ago

Rude, you should have allowed someone to reply to your comment, would have been funnier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wow, I like that better...I feel that's what the person really means most of the time

[–] MTK 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is it suppose to be?!

[–] MufinMcFlufin 5 points 11 months ago

"Fixed that for you" is what it's supposed to be!

FTFY

[–] aulin 1 points 11 months ago

A lot of people on Reddit used to unironically claim that's what it stood for. 🤦