Re: Acronyms & Abbreviations--Just Say NO!

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:
I think Tom's position was a bit extreme, but I'm not entirely in agreement with Eric here, either.

It's all a question of figuring out what your audience expects and is comfortable with, and the choices you make are going to vary from one kind of document for a given audience and another kind of document for the same or a different audience.

Nobody is ever going to make exactly the right choices all the time, because there is no one exactly right choice in most circumstances. You use your judgment and adjust as needed as time goes on.



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>But consider the thousands of readers that did NOT ask what it meant. Are we
>supposed to dumb-down all our communication to the lowest denominator? Or, more
>logically, should we just provide the resources/help to those that need it (or
>politely point the lost souls to Google).
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