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.
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.
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 just 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
Today I learned that laser is an acronym. “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”
Radar and sonar are both acronyms as well.
Initialisms are a type of acronym. All initialisms are acronyms but not all acronyms are initialisms.
Other way around.
Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters
Hmm, okay, it’s apparently debated. However, the only way I’ve learned it is that initialisms are words formed from initial letters of included words, and acronyms are initialisms pronounced as words. It seems like it varies by country as well.
I care, but mostly because it’s fun. Just like apparently there’s no such thing as a fish, and that fruits are vegetables…
I thought vegetables weren’t a botanical classification?
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 !
It’s the Air Charlie
Armor class…
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.
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).
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.”
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 always read “f/u w/PCP” as “fucked up on PCP” instead of “follow up with primary care provider”.
That is an… unwise abbreviation
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
IWPITTWAWOTAFTTDNKTY (I wish people in this thread would also write out the acronym for those that do not know them yet)
IA (I agree)
FTW. For years I thought it meant “Fuck The What”. Even now that’s the first thing that comes to mind and have a hard time remembering the actual meaning.
There’s also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up
After “fuck the what” it started to mean “For the win”. What else is it supposed to be?
What else is it supposed to be?
- fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
- ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
- fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
- feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
- feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.
This list gets progressively more FTW.
It’s always been For The Win to me. Fuck the world seems to have been before my time.
Fuck the world.
But it’s normally For the win?
Not an acronym unless you pronounce it “Futtawuh” or something.
Which I do.
😄👍 Nice
I’m with Norm on this: “ID” is stupid. “I” stands for “i” and “D” stands for “dentification”.
Identification Document
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?
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.
Killer Instinct-generated.
word of the year lol smh
NAMBLA. Those chuckle fucks at the North American Man/Boy Love Association really made it difficult for us members of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.
Absolute freak show of an organisation. (Theirs, not yours.) The first time I read about it I thought it was onion-level satire but, sadly, it wasn’t…
Is… is that a pedophile advocacy group?
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.
North American Man/Boy Love Association is very pedophilia focused and they should be disbanded.
Yeah, that was about what I thought it was…
Same with the attempt to make people call pedophiles "MAP"s instead. (For those who haven’t been made aware of the abbreviation; it is meant to stand for “Minor Attracted Person”. While it’s a more broad term than pedophile, since it includes the other age ranges (Something like hebephile and such, I don’t remember them all, learned about it from a joke a comedian told), for normal conversations I think pedophile works fine for talking about everyone attracted to people below a certain age of which we (society) deem them capable of consenting to some things)
iYKYK. Took me forever to figure out what it means.
Ah yes, Apple’s famous iYouKnowYouKnow.
It’s basic logical notation.
if YK, then YK
Some will ask what YK is. But it doesn’t matter! The statement is true.
I have seen nerdy programming groups type yk->yk but that might be unique to my group.
TMYK (the more you know)
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:
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lots of people use bofa!
bofa deez nuts!
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the tags I used work fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotcha. The tags didn’t render for me (I’m using Jerboa on Android)
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.
Get him out of you RIGHT NOW
I always read ofc as “of fucking course” it makes no sense to include the f.
Wow I always just assumed I was the only one who did this! Greetings, fellow of fucking course’er.
“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”?
Exactly!
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.
Oc is already taken for original content
What the hell else would it be?
GOP is shitty one for sure.
