Are you also annoyed by the abbreviation? I am. It makes me think of nanobots and bananas, neither of which I am a fan.
It's f'ing TERRIBLE. Call it "novel month" or "writer's month" or fuck, "Novelmber." And fuck your 50,000 words, too. Have fun selling that, ass. Outside of Fahrenheit 451, Slaughterhouse 5 and Old Man and the Sea, nothing is that short. So basically it's an excuse for you to avoid your family and do "important" things while you grow your beard so that in exchange for shaving, they have to read your claptrap. NaNoWriMo. As a proper acronym it'd look like something went wrong with your lockstitch: I\I\I\/\/\/\/\ Call that shit Washiontal Wovel Writing Wonth and get it over with: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ...yeah, you found a sore spot.
Haha! Yesssss someone else hates it as much as I do. I mean, it's cool that people are giving something a try, but imagining that a person who doesn't write regularly can somehow pull a novel worth reading out of their ass in a month is pretty silly. If it leads to people writing regularly and really becoming dedicated to the craft, then I am all for it. But generally it won't and it doesn't. What I am not all for, is people talking about how their novel is going and complaining about how they aren't hitting their wordcount, as if throwing enough words on a page will somehow birth authors.