What is your least favourite acronym?
What is your least favourite acronym?
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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FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.
Fully liberatedf open source software? As in, the code has forcefully been taken away from the original coder?
Putting free/liber into an abbreviation, now we can not only shorten it but make it multi language at once
The two words don't mean the same though?
Tney do. The first one causes confusion without context, the second one is a much rarer word. I hate the situasion we've gotten ourselves into, but it is what it is.
No 'liber' means - at least if we assume the meaning for other written works - that it's public record. Unless we meant to say 'libre', but then the british immediately start screeching because french words. 'free' means that it's free, it costs nothing. Hence the two can go together, meaning that:
- It costs nothing.
- It's publicly available.
But yeah it sucks. Weird bullshit abbreviation bingo to play.
I always liked the comparison of free beer vs free speech. Free/libre is just a bit less clunky than saying no-charge and available.