What is your least favourite acronym?

thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 358 points –

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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WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get

  • Used for software such as Microsoft Word, where formatting the text actually changes what you see on the screen

Then there's the less talked about sibling, WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean). These attempt to reduce bloat in output by being more abstract in what they manipulate instead of promising pixel-perfect results.

This one never really made sense to me. Like, yes, that's what a screen is for?

It's in contrast to something like LaTex or markdown, where you edit the syntax for formatting directly and don't see the final result until you preview or save it.