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.
ICYMI (in case you missed it) and IYKYK (if you know, you know) which frequently get crossed in my head
Worst: TLA
Best: WOMBAT
What does WOMBAT stand for?
Waste of money brains and time 😸
I hate all TLAs
Might be unpopular, but as a non-English native I hate that Americans need to abbreviate everything into acronyms. POSTUS, SCOTUS, AWOL, ASAP. If it’s not catchy as an abbreviation it needs a new name. I don’t mind it so much in small settings, but when you read anything about America and all the comments are full of acronyms it’s like a puzzle I never asked for.
I’m not American, and it took me a while to figure out what POTUS, SCOTUS, and GOP were
Related, OOP for Out Of Pocket. In software, its Object Oriented Programming. My programming lead uses the first meaning in email frequently
I have a weird thing where I’ll know an acronym that’s close to another one, confuse the two, and come up with a new acronym that doesn’t exist or make sense, but it “works” and then the rest of the context is just off.
The latest victim of this is “Assigned Cis At Birth”
Now that that’s out in the world, I’m sorry that someone else is going to do the same thing…
I do the same thing. My brain kept misinterpreting ACAB for a while and usually slotted in “cat” for some reason until I figured out what it meant
It bothers me when OO doesnt stand for “object oriented”
FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.
Mtg. A lot of posts and articles use it for Marjory Taylor Green an it always confuses me, I keep trying to figure out what Magic the Gathering has to do with Jewish space lasers.
Tap to deal 5 damage to target creature or player, then add three recharge counters to Jewish Space Laser.
During the untap phase, if there are any recharge counters on Jewish Space Laser, instead of untapping remove one counter. Otherwise, untap as normal.
I keep trying to figure out what Magic the Gathering has to do with Jewish space lasers.
tbf, it wouldn’t surprise me if those show up in a set at some point
not an acronym, but ‘Est.’ as in ‘Established xyz’. i read it as ‘Ever Since The/Time’
My favorite is GIF cause we all agree how it’s pronounced, no confusion there. If you think it’s said the other way you are wrong and very stupid.
Choosy moms choose GIF
BofA
What’s BofA?
It’s related to SugON.
I hate “lol” as punctuation. If you’re legitimately laughing out loud, fine. But, I really hate:
“can I show u something lol”
“I gave it to David lol”
I agree lol
Then you’re gonna hate my use of “lololol” instead of “hahahah”, both of which i use essentially interchangeably in texts.
That’s a bit annoying, but at least it represents laughing. What I hate is when it’s just used to “lighten the mood” and doesn’t represent laughing at all.
And, the proper way is “jajajaja”, as my Spanish-speaking friends have taught me.
I always liked the 5555 in thai.
If it’s coming out of a teenager… passable.
If it’s coming out of an adult… please act your age.
lol
WDYM…
I don’t know why, it just looks unpleasant.
Would Do Your Mom
Weapons Destruction Yass Mass
I’m with Norm on this: “ID” is stupid. “I” stands for “i” and “D” stands for “dentification”.
Identification Document
under my roof it’s Identification Documentation
my roof is a bridge
I am a troll
I don’t think that’s an acronym, it’s just an abbreviation
But then why is it pronounced “eye dee” as if each letter stood for a separate word, and not “eyed” as if it was a short hand, like every other abbreviation?
