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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] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i agree. i am a recent gooey-convert. same with TUI (terminal ui), but not UI.

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

I've never had to say TUI. I usually just say "termainal" or "command line". UI depends on the context, sometimes "u-i" sometimes "user interface"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

a TUI is usually more interactive, such as Vim, and basically a full GUI, but rendered as text.

'command line interface' (CLI) typically means you type out commands and thats it, such as a Bash program or Git or something.