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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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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 42 points 10 months ago

I always read ofc as "of fucking course" it makes no sense to include the f.

[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"ofc" doesn't stand for "of fucking course"

edit this was supposed to have a question mark:

"ofc" doesn't stand for "of fucking course"?

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Exactly!

[-] jadedwench@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I am so confused. It seriously doesn't mean, "of fucking course"? I never knew and I don't think I can retrain my brain to think otherwise on this one. I was raised by an uncouth teddy bear, so fuck is just a sort of normal word for me.

Today I Learned.

[-] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of OOF: Out of Office. Like with automated email replies.

Shouldn't it be OOO? But nope, it's OOF.

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 points 10 months ago

Well that's the whole point, ain't it?

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Oc is already taken for original content

[-] Tuggles@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Wow I always just assumed I was the only one who did this! Greetings, fellow of fucking course'er.

[-] asceticism@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

OC is already original content though. Not that I like OFC but OC is already taken in my head.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

i read it as literally 'of c-'. like someone got cut of speaking.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

What the hell else would it be?

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