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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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[–] dillydogg@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

Nothing can beat the baseball stat TOOTBLAN

Thrown Out On The Basepaths Like A Nincompoop

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Might be unpopular, but as a non-English native I hate that Americans need to abbreviate everything into acronyms. POSTUS, SCOTUS, AWOL, ASAP. If it's not catchy as an abbreviation it needs a new name. I don't mind it so much in small settings, but when you read anything about America and all the comments are full of acronyms it's like a puzzle I never asked for.

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not American, and it took me a while to figure out what POTUS, SCOTUS, and GOP were

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

World Wide Web is simpler than Double U Double U Double U.

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