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.

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    110 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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        210 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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          10 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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            210 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.