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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 speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

GUI. Stop sounding it out as gooey it makes me uncomfortable.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You say G-U-I? I'm sorry but I'm on the gooey side on this argument. G-U-I takes too long and sounds weird.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 10 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"

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 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.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Someone had recently named their newly minted GUI toolkit as "gooey". I was thinking of trying to talk them out of it because imagine the confusing conversations. Then I thought more about my decision and decided to spend my time on more productive tasks.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is nothing more productive than arguing with people over software names.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Let's bike shed this sucker!

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

its either that or soft g and that would be troublesome