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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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[–] Macaroni_ninja 67 points 10 months ago (30 children)

It's infuriating to read all the comments without explanations what said acronym means.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (23 children)

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.)

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

PEBKAC

Every time that I see this acronym I'm tempted to pronounce it as ['rʲefkas], then I remember "ah, it isn't Cyrillic".

[–] CookieMonsterDebate 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would that mean anything if it were?

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

No, but simply looking for something and then remembering that it doesn't exist makes me feel stupid.

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