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.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      Fully liberatedf open source software? As in, the code has forcefully been taken away from the original coder?

      • Monkey With A Shell
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        111 months ago

        Putting free/liber into an abbreviation, now we can not only shorten it but make it multi language at once

          • OmidMnz
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            211 months ago

            Tney do. The first one causes confusion without context, the second one is a much rarer word. I hate the situasion we’ve gotten ourselves into, but it is what it is.

            • Carighan Maconar
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              11 months ago

              No ‘liber’ means - at least if we assume the meaning for other written works - that it’s public record. Unless we meant to say ‘libre’, but then the british immediately start screeching because french words. ‘free’ means that it’s free, it costs nothing. Hence the two can go together, meaning that:

              • It costs nothing.
              • It’s publicly available.

              But yeah it sucks. Weird bullshit abbreviation bingo to play.

              • Monkey With A Shell
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                211 months ago

                I always liked the comparison of free beer vs free speech. Free/libre is just a bit less clunky than saying no-charge and available.