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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    Mine are “lol” and “lmao”. I get what they originally meant, and I get why most people use them nowadays. It’s just that they often signal “I have nothing to contribute, but still expect people to read my crap”.

    As a second (third?) place, “WYSIWYG”. If you’re going to coin such verbose acronym, might as well sub it with an actual word, like, dunno, “transparent”.

    EDIT - “lol” = “lots of laughs”, “lmao” = “laughing my arse off”, “WYSIWYG” = “what you see is what you get”.

    EDIT2: as another poster correctly pointed out, “lol” also originally meant “laughing out loud”. Perhaps even more than “lots of laughs”.

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      I actually kinda love WYSIWYG because it’s pronounced “wizzy-wig” in some circles and that always makes me chuckle