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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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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago (18 children)

POS I find very funny as I'm often working on Point-of-Sale equipment, and most of it is running Poorly Optimized Software, making the whole thing a Piece of Shit for the users.

[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Not an acronym though, but an initialism. Acronyms are said like a word, like CRISPR, initialisms aren’t, like ATM.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Oh shit. TIL. Also, I guess TIL is not an acronym then lol.

Speaking of ATM, am I the only one that defaults this to "ass to mouth", before realizing they mean asynchronous transaction machine?

[–] friedgreenpineapples@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Automated Teller Machine

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