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.
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.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 7•10 months ago
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 haven’t played Magic in 25 (maybe 30?) years, but you captured the tone for sure. Do you work for Wizards?
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 1•10 months ago
I wish, but no
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
Just to be “that guy” I wanted to say that an acronym is technically an initialism that you pronounce as a word, like SCUBA, LASER, or NASA. If it’s just letters that stand for something, it’s called an initialism. No one cares (not even me), but I had to say it :P
Most acronyms that have a W in them are pointless to say aloud in English. It’s almost always shorter to just say the words. Like WTF, for example. Those are my least favorite
Oh and YMMV. I used to work with car data and we would use YMMB to mean “year/make/model/body” and so I always start reading YMMV wrong and that bugs me
I care, but mostly because it’s fun. Just like apparently there’s no such thing as a fish, and that fruits are vegetables…
Initialisms are a type of acronym. All initialisms are acronyms but not all acronyms are initialisms.
Today I learned that laser is an acronym. “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”
I hate all acronyms that aren’t defined.
You see it constantly in gaming communities. Ah, yes, the game “AC.” You know the one.
Assassin’s Creed? Animal Crossing? Armored Core? Ace Combat?
Air Conditioning
That one’s cool.
I love that game !
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 4•10 months ago
Autocannon
Don’t have a least favourite.
But my favourite is WYSIWYG has been mine for 20 years now, it’s so fun to say.
It stands for “What You See Is What You Get” and was used for visual editing programs where you could move things around and the final product would reflect that.
For those who don’t know, much of the reason WYSIWYG is so fun is because the accepted pronunciation is “whizzy-wig”!
As a term it rarely gets used any longer, because “visual editors” are now the norm, where once they were the rarity.
Before visual editors, you’d have content on a screen like a document which you could only see how it would actually look by physically printing it onto a piece of paper. This is because the printer itself knew about fonts and paper size and all that, and the editor didn’t.
Nowadays even with technically non-WYSIWYG editors like markdown text you can still instantly preview the rendered output on screen, so there isn’t as much need to call it out as a feature.
WYSIWYG is also pretty common these days for tabletop gaming, with regard for models using the rules for whatever weapons or equipment they are actually holding. This came around as often people build the model one way (e.g. with a machine gun) before a rule change, after which they want to use the better rules without re-doing the model (e.g. with a flamethrower).
I agree, most fin acronym to say
There’s also WYGIWYW (“What You Get Is What You Want”) and is primarily used for latex, because you give up some manual control for a (allegedly) better looking result.
My least favorite is IANAL (no pun intended), my favorite is RTFM, I use it a lot!
BofA is ugly but it’s mainly a US thing, no one else uses it.
lots of people use bofa! >!bofa deez nuts!<
Spoiler tags work a little different here. Try this:
::: spoiler lots of people use bofa! bofa deez nuts! :::the tags I used work fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotcha. The tags didn’t render for me (I’m using Jerboa on Android)
That’s not official though
They don’t work on the Lemmy website, I guess your app is doing non-standard stuff
I can only read it as “I Anal” and the teenage boy in me giggles and I forget what I am reading.
IWPITTWAWOTAFTTDNKTY (I wish people in this thread would also write out the acronym for those that do not know them yet)
IA (I agree)
I’m with Norm on this: “ID” is stupid. “I” stands for “i” and “D” stands for “dentification”.
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?
Identification Document
under my roof it’s Identification Documentation
my roof is a bridge
I am a troll
CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Source: http://www.captcha.net/
Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎
People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in “double-u double-u double-u”. Fucking dicks 😂.
It’s the correct way to speak a URL… dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com
Correct way is to double-u, not dub.
Correct way is to treat “www.” as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn’t support non-www URLs, don’t do business with them.
Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.
I wonder how much they paid to have that domain name only for it to only show the word “something” there
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 2•10 months ago
Ah crap that’s what I say.
I’m only messing, it just gets on my tits that’s all.
I never understood why it’s called double-u. It looks more like a double-v. Most of the time, the sound in words is even more similar to a V than a U. There is probably some reason in ancient versions of the letters.
Www is super annoying to say in english, because “double u” is THREE! syllables. In my native language it is pronounced like “way way way”, which I’m very thankful for.
Ftfy always becomes “fuck that, fuck you” in my head.
Wow, I like that better…I feel that’s what the person really means most of the time
Norway has a weird obsession with making translated acronyms for well established terms. Lately, after many years of use of “AI”, the Language Council decided that the term should be changed to “KI”, as that is the “correct” Norwegian acronym. Not only does it feel wrong to say, but it invades another local acronym for me.
To top it of, that council decided to make “KI-generated” the “word of the year”, which seems like a pat on their own shoulder to brilliantly making the acronym.
I hate it.
KI-generated
A Kamehameha is also KI-generated.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months ago
word of the year lol smh
Similarly, GDPR is referred to as DSGVO in Germany, based on the German name of the legislation. Same legislation, just a different name in one country because they didn’t want to use an English acronym.
We have the same with EEA (european economic area, that part of EU which norway is a part of). It’s EØS here. It makes it convoluted to discuss, especially since EEA is mainly brought up in international subjects. And the actual words behind the acronym is never brought up, so the acronym serves mainly as a name, making the differentiation even more useless.
Killer Instinct-generated.
In Czech we had/have this too. I haven’t heard it in years now so maybe it’s finally gone, but when Morpheus tells Neo about the first “UI” (umělá inteligence = artificial intelligence).
did it catch on with the public, or do they still say AI?
It’s a bit of a mix. I think people generally say AI, but every source which aims at using Norwegian in a formally correct way are starting to adopt KI. Many radio hosts seem frustrated, as they are suddenly required by the producer to switch up an acronym they have been using for several years.
Had an old colleague who kept abbreviating ‘follow up’ as ‘f/up.’
“Yeah we should be okay, I’ll f/up on that later today.”
“Hey are you able to f/up on this?”
“Hey, I f/uped with our boss today on our issue.”
That is an… unwise abbreviation
I learned this as medical short hand back before electronic medical records were everywhere. Except I used f/u instead of f/up. This phrase went in almost every single case note every day so I used the short hand A LOT. It still sneaks into my writing sometimes.
I watched somebody type in FU for follow up recently.
I always read ofc as “of fucking course” it makes no sense to include the f.
“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”?
This reminds me of OOF: Out of Office. Like with automated email replies.
Shouldn’t it be OOO? But nope, it’s OOF.
Exactly!
Well that’s the whole point, ain’t it?
Oc is already taken for original content
i read it as literally ‘of c-’. like someone got cut of speaking.
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
Gif
Gift
GiffordGiraffe
Giant
GistIf anyone can come up with a word that starts with GIF that uses the J sound I’d be happy to learn what it is, but all the GIF words I can think of use the G sound.
SQL when pronounced as sequel. Squall or even squirrel would have been nicer imo
Squeel
Ive worked with tons of DB devs and admins. Nobody really seems to care. A bunch of us say “sequel” and a bunch of us say “ess cue ell”, even in the same answer-and-response in a conversation and nobody seems to bat an eye. You’ll get a comment or a smirk if you say “squirrel” or “squeal”, but that’s about it.
FMLA. I start reading it as fuck my life before realizing it’s the family and medical leave allowance. So much hinges on that extra A.
fuck my life anally
now i’ve ruined it for you permanently
