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.

  • Lvxferre
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    11 months ago

    Isn’t lol short for “laughing out loud”?

    Wiktionary lists both “laughing out loud” and “lots of laughs”. Nowadays though it’s neither; on a pragmatic level it doesn’t convey “I’m laughing” / “I laughed”, it conveys amusement and/or lack of seriousness, depending on the context.

    • [Alice] The Sun is a star.
    • [Bob] yeah sure the sun only appears at night lol (implying: “I’m amused at what Alice said, and I don’t take it seriously.”)