Re: Clashing Initialisms

Subject: Re: Clashing Initialisms
From: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Sion Lane <slane -at- ubq -dot- thrupoint -dot- net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:53:05 -0400

Who are you writing for and what do they associate with more?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Sion Lane <slane -at- ubq -dot- thrupoint -dot- net> wrote:
> I have a document where CLI is the initialism of both Caller Line
> Identification and Command Line Interface.
>
> Elsewhere in this document set CLI is used only in reference to Command
> Line Interface so I have decided not to use the initialism for Caller Line
> Identifiaction. Is there a more elegant solution?


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Clashing Initialisms: From: Sion Lane

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