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submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Do you remember before we had usb devices, our laptops had credit-card-sized PCMCIA slots?

I love that word. What's it mean? People can't memorise computer industry acronyms. ;-)

[-] omgnvq@feddit.nl 11 points 10 months ago

Sorry to ruin the fun but it stands for "Personal Computer Memory Card International Association"

There is a joke around the name, as you said, though :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Computer_Memory_Card_International_Association

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Nothing ruined :) I knew that, and wanted to share the fun version first. Thanks for providing the true version, of course.

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