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Here's another... one of my co-workers says yer'll for URL. Ugh.

• shrimp_emoji 4y ago
  This is common in other languages. Pronouncing letters in English is especially tedious. "You ar el" is so oppressive to say compared to "oo rr luh" as you might in a Romance language. And both are worse than "uhrl". Also, we don't got a problem with "bios" for BIOS. :p (Yet few people seem to use "yufi" for UEFI.)
  • salawat 4y ago
    Yufi sounds too much like "Roofie", which is what I call a Yufi that has network connectivity and is hosted on a machine with an appropriate network card. Friends don't let friends compute on Roofied computers... Or worse, roofie their own systems!
• lostlogin 4y ago
  This sounds like Ural to me. Excellent stuff. Acronyms are actually the devil. In the medical world it’s been further optimised such that one abbreviation can mean many things. And then people ‘handwrite’ (it’s actually just scribbles) half their documentation so that you can’t read it. If you are lucky enough to work in a service that captures things from diverse specialities the result is dark comedy. MRA = magnetic resonance angiogram. Or magnetic resonance arthrogram. CT = computed tomography. Or corneal transplant. Those are just the two that caused thousands of dollars of errors in my recent memory, but it’s a daily battle working out what the hell a referral means.