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.
If anyone can come up with a word that starts with GIF that uses the J sound I’d be happy to learn what it is, but all the GIF words I can think of use the G sound.
The peanut butter came first, is how I see it. Seniority and the feature of the image being easily shared (or GIFted) provide all the reasons I need for how I say it.
Ghee actually uses a different sound than “ghost”, but we don’t have that sound in English. It’s like saying that “ts” makes an “s” sound because of the word tsunami.
So is that all of the gh words? Because that’s a very small list, lol
I’m a pasty, old, white man and even I’ve got a half-full can of ghee in the fridge. I know you don’t have to keep it in the fridge but I’m short of cupboard space.
One that always confuses me is MSM. For over 40 years it has been used to mean “Men who have sex with men”, but recently conservatives started using it to mean “mainstream media” and its sometimes hard to tell which of their hates they are talking about. MSM is still widely used in the medical community when discussing/classifying patients and in the ongoing AIDS epidemic.
NAMBLA. Those chuckle fucks at the North American Man/Boy Love Association really made it difficult for us members of the North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.
Yeah, that was about what I thought it was…
Same with the attempt to make people call pedophiles "MAP"s instead. (For those who haven’t been made aware of the abbreviation; it is meant to stand for “Minor Attracted Person”. While it’s a more broad term than pedophile, since it includes the other age ranges (Something like hebephile and such, I don’t remember them all, learned about it from a joke a comedian told), for normal conversations I think pedophile works fine for talking about everyone attracted to people below a certain age of which we (society) deem them capable of consenting to some things)
See, I feel like I have to do it to show some levity, since tone doesn’t come across through text.
There’s a big difference if you’re talking with a friend about something stupid they did, and saying “You’re such an idiot lol” and “You’re such an idiot.” One is teasing them, the other is chastising them.
If someone is doing that to you it means they don’t like you or are otherwise done with your shit. It’s also a way of saying “I really shouldn’t be saying this” as kind of a way of addressing what you’re said before is fucked up but insisting the need to communicate it regardless.
That’s a bit annoying, but at least it represents laughing. What I hate is when it’s just used to “lighten the mood” and doesn’t represent laughing at all.
And, the proper way is “jajajaja”, as my Spanish-speaking friends have taught me.
I learned this as medical short hand back before electronic medical records were everywhere. Except I used f/u instead of f/up. This phrase went in almost every single case note every day so I used the short hand A LOT. It still sneaks into my writing sometimes.
YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it’s short for ‘you will never be a man/woman’), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.
I have a weird thing where I’ll know an acronym that’s close to another one, confuse the two, and come up with a new acronym that doesn’t exist or make sense, but it “works” and then the rest of the context is just off.
The latest victim of this is “Assigned Cis At Birth”
Now that that’s out in the world, I’m sorry that someone else is going to do the same thing…
In my area of specialty, Identity and Access Management, one of the recent fads is Attribute Based Access Control. I always do a little double take when there’s a serious conference topic going over ABAC.
I spent a few moments trying to figure out why anyone would need “Assigned Cis At Birth” as an acronym, since it seems…redundant. Then I figured out what you meant.
For me this one is “ofc” which people use to mean “of course” but my brain always says “of fucking course.”
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