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What is your least favourite acronym?

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

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AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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“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”?

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Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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Well that’s the whole point, ain’t it?

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saigot@lemmy.ca
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Exactly!

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🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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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.

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JCPhoenix@beehaw.org
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This reminds me of OOF: Out of Office. Like with automated email replies.

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

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Tuggles@lemmy.world
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Wow I always just assumed I was the only one who did this! Greetings, fellow of fucking course’er.

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

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/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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Oc is already taken for original content

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lseif@sopuli.xyz
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i read it as literally ‘of c-’. like someone got cut of speaking.

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scottywh@lemmy.world
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What the hell else would it be?

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