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submitted 11 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

PICNIC. problem in chair, not in computer.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I always know it as a PBCAK error (problem between chair and keyboard)

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[-] WebTheWitted@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

Ha, I always knew this concept as PEBKAC - problem exists between keyboard and chair.

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[-] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago
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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

iirc just because i dont know what it means

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 11 points 11 months ago

iirc it means "if I recall/remember correctly"

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[-] catacomb@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

obscure corporate jargon like KPIs (key performance indicators), KRIs (key risk indicators) which, after having thrown them at me during an interview for a college intern position, made the interviewer wonder why i got so flustered. i would hesitate to throw any acronyms around in any interview, let alone for a college student.

by the way, i got the internship. the acronyms weren't even used in my position.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GABOS.

Prison lingo. Acronym for 'Game Ain't Based On Sympathy," first heard in the Louis Theroux documentary "Miami Mega Jail".

Louie: Don't... don't you feel sympathy for that person? For that other inmate you extorted?

Inmate: GABOS, man... GABOS.

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[-] AngelJamie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago
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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Not me but my spouse hates recursive ones, like GNU. Hates them so much, active vocal expressions of dislike. Anyways the setting I'm making is filthy with recursive acronyms for no reason.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

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"

[-] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

See, I feel like I have to do it to show some levity, since tone doesn't come across through text.

There's a big difference if you're talking with a friend about something stupid they did, and saying "You're such an idiot lol" and "You're such an idiot." One is teasing them, the other is chastising them.

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

not an acronym, but 'Est.' as in 'Established xyz'. i read it as 'Ever Since The/Time'

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago

YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it's short for 'you will never be a man/woman'), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 9 points 11 months ago

Yikes, I've never seen these ones before but I hope they're confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don't see them too much

[-] tslnox@reddthat.com 9 points 11 months ago

TBF

To Be Fucked.

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