Re: creating funny TLAs - rant warning

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Marguerite Krupp wrote:
 
> I am on a personal (and lonely) campaign to have people spell out what their
> acronyms mean at least once in any utterance in any medium.

Since a tech-writer is supposed to explain concepts clearly, I consider
this practice standard, even when writing for experts. You'd be
surprised how often even experts use an acronym without knowing what it
means. Even if they once knew, they soon forget. Just the other day, a
marketing droid asked me what TCP/IP stood for, and there was an awful
moment of blankness in my mind before I could remember (no, not that
blankness. The one that's not normal).


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