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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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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

Source: http://www.captcha.net/

Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎

[–] mannycalavera 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in "double-u double-u double-u". Fucking dicks 😂.

[–] echo@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's the correct way to speak a URL... dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Correct way is to double-u, not dub.

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

Correct way is to treat "www." as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn't support non-www URLs, don't do business with them.

Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wonder how much they paid to have that domain name only for it to only show the word "something" there

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah crap that's what I say.

[–] mannycalavera 2 points 10 months ago

I'm only messing, it just gets on my tits that's all.

[–] sgtskully@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I never understood why it's called double-u. It looks more like a double-v. Most of the time, the sound in words is even more similar to a V than a U. There is probably some reason in ancient versions of the letters.