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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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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

MVP. It means two things, both are polar opposites. Absolute bare minium product, or most valuable player / product.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Minimum Viable Product, yeah.

Also not an ~~initialism~~ acronym, but an initialism. Unless you pronounce it "Muvapuh" or something.

[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Definitely an initialism.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, yes! That's what I actually meant 😄 Edited to reflect that. Thank you!

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Vmmpah

[–] CookieMonsterDebate@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The remix version of Mmmbop

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mmmvhpah?

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Move pee

[–] gsfraley@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same with proof-of-concept and piece-of-crap!

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

point of contact

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Piece of shit point of sale

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Someone at work insisted the MVP emoji meant Minimum Viable Product. I get that the term exists, and that we use it, but it's way more niche than Most Valuable Player, and it's certainly no emoji.