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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)
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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 speechβ€”you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (12 children)

GUI. Stop sounding it out as gooey it makes me uncomfortable.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You say G-U-I? I'm sorry but I'm on the gooey side on this argument. G-U-I takes too long and sounds weird.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Someone had recently named their newly minted GUI toolkit as "gooey". I was thinking of trying to talk them out of it because imagine the confusing conversations. Then I thought more about my decision and decided to spend my time on more productive tasks.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Same. All through school and in University, lecturers and professors called it G.U.I., then when I entered the workforce, managers were saying "gooey", I was so confused, I didn't know what they meant and I couldn't take them seriously when they said it.

    Now 15 years later, I still cringe when people say "gooey", I deliberately make an effort to say "G.U.I." in an effort to correct them.

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