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

submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] GammaGames 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

Source: http://www.captcha.net/

Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in "double-u double-u double-u". Fucking dicks 😂.

[–] echo@lemmings.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's the correct way to speak a URL... dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Correct way is to double-u, not dub.

[–] survivalmachine 2 points 10 months ago

Correct way is to treat "www." as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn't support non-www URLs, don't do business with them.

Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder how much they paid to have that domain name only for it to only show the word "something" there

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah crap that's what I say.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

I'm only messing, it just gets on my tits that's all.

[–] sgtskully@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I never understood why it's called double-u. It looks more like a double-v. Most of the time, the sound in words is even more similar to a V than a U. There is probably some reason in ancient versions of the letters.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Www is super annoying to say in english, because "double u" is THREE! syllables. In my native language it is pronounced like "way way way", which I'm very thankful for.