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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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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 46 points 10 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

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).

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