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

submitted 6 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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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (28 children)

It's infuriating to read all the comments without explanations what said acronym means.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (23 children)

IANAL but you should RTFM because PEBKAC.

(IANAL is my favorite ever acronym because it's funny dammit... I was just looking for an excuse to sneak it in somewhere in this thread. RTFM is a fine acronym but I have such a negative association with it because it's almost exclusively used by assholes. PEBKAC is just an elitist acronym whenever not used ironically.)

[–] tautalas@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And still this MF (Mother Fucker) doesn't write what any of it stands for.

[–] Undef@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

IANAL - I am not a lawyer

RTFM - Read the fucking manual

PEBCAK - Problem exists between chair and keybord

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When will you ever use pebcak?

[–] Undef@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I work in IT, so we see pebcak issues fairly often

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)