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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (10 children)

ETA, but not the estimated time of arrival that everyone knows.

The ETA that Tumblr and XX chromosomes made popular that actually means Edited to add...

Rather than just Edit: or E:.

But it means I added something!... Right... That's literally the definition of edit... Blood is thicker than the water of the womb too right? Lmfao.

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

ETA is also Czech (formerly) brand of household appliances.

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