What is your least favourite acronym? - eviltoast

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.

    • lseif@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      i agree. i am a recent gooey-convert. same with TUI (terminal ui), but not UI.

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        10 months ago

        I’ve never had to say TUI. I usually just say “termainal” or “command line”. UI depends on the context, sometimes “u-i” sometimes “user interface”

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          10 months ago

          a TUI is usually more interactive, such as Vim, and basically a full GUI, but rendered as text.

          ‘command line interface’ (CLI) typically means you type out commands and thats it, such as a Bash program or Git or something.