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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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[–] chahk@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm with Norm on this: "ID" is stupid. "I" stands for "i" and "D" stands for "dentification".

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that's an acronym, it's just an abbreviation

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

But then why is it pronounced "eye dee" as if each letter stood for a separate word, and not "eyed" as if it was a short hand, like every other abbreviation?

[–] Lucz1848@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago

under my roof it’s Identification Documentation

my roof is a bridge

I am a troll