RE: creating funny TLAs - rant warning

Subject: RE: creating funny TLAs - rant warning
From: "Amy Smith/CAM/Lotus" <Amy_Smith -at- lotus -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:26:37 -0400

I used to work for Fidelity Investments - a company that is very fond of
acronyms. (Hi Connie!) What's more, every acronym starts with Fidelity:
Fidelity Investments Development Organization (FIDO), Fidelity
Telecommunications Company (FTC), etc. ad nauseum. One of my writers
called our acronym list 'the F-words.'

We mandated that the first time an F-word was used in a chapter, it was
spelled out. Yes, it was possible to have Fidelity Telecommunications
Company spelled out 13 times in a document, if need be. But I think it
helped with the acronym vertigo. Plus, you can't count on users starting
in Chapter One and reading sequentially - our users skipped around. So,
anywhere they went in the book, they could count on learning what FTC was,
or FISM, or FSDC, or FSC, or FMR..or....

Amy
(who has a few choice F-words of her own that she can't publish here)

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Lotus Development Corp.
External: 617/693-9733 Tie line: 333-9733
amy_smith -at- lotus -dot- com

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multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by
a bunch of maniacs." - Frankie the mouse, in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the
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