RE: creating funny TLAs - rant warning

["Diane Evans" <dianee -at- lockstream -dot- com>]

Marguerite says "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. Bad enough in an
industry fraught with acronyms anyway, but this is getting ridiculous -
especially within a company that is an amalgam of acquired companies, each
with its own set of internal acronyms."

I used to work at The Boeing Company (thankfully, I quickly came to my
senses).

They have so many acronyms there that they have a website to look up Boeing
acronyms...and sometimes, one acronym is used by several different
departments, so you have to guess which one is meant!

I agree...do away with acronyms!  I always write out the phrase once with
the acronym in parentheses before I use it in a document.

In my not so humble opinion (IMNSHO)...

Diane Evans
Technical Writer
Lockstream



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