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

MAP, no rebranding that. Defend that shit and get in line with the rest of them and jump in feet first.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

STFU

I remember watching a video by Ryan Higa thinking it meant "stop tickling furry unicorns", it wasn't until I learned what it actually meant years later that I got pretty damn disappointed.

VOD is a close second though. I hate how you could take something that refers to something so general (videos on demand), and over time starr using it to exclusively refer to past Twitch streams. I know that this is what Twitch calls them, and it's technically not wrong to call them that, but it still doesn't make sense when that's all that VOD means nowadays. I miss the days of being jealous at the Americans for having cable.

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

Not an acronym, but I've been in a couple of jobs where people use "offline" to mean "not at this meeting", as in "let's take this tangential discussion offline". They would say that during an in-person meeting to take the conversation to digital (online!) media!

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

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

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