I work in corporate IT and literally have received entire emails in acronyms and it makes me irate. People need to just start spelling things out again. Especially when CBT can mean 3 different things and 1 of them is cock and ball torture.
Acronyms are functionally worthless. There are only so many combinations you can use when sticking with the English language. It’s like 17,500 and something if you’re sticking with 3 letter acronyms. Even if you know exactly what the person is talking about there’s a non-zero chance that it could be sharing the acronym with something else you know. ESPECIALLY if you work in corporate IT such as yourself and have to deal with IT lingo and corpo lingo.
I work in corporate IT and literally have received entire emails in acronyms and it makes me irate. People need to just start spelling things out again. Especially when CBT can mean 3 different things and 1 of them is cock and ball torture.
Acronyms are functionally worthless. There are only so many combinations you can use when sticking with the English language. It’s like 17,500 and something if you’re sticking with 3 letter acronyms. Even if you know exactly what the person is talking about there’s a non-zero chance that it could be sharing the acronym with something else you know. ESPECIALLY if you work in corporate IT such as yourself and have to deal with IT lingo and corpo lingo.
I think you mean TLAs
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“Way to stay on the abbreviation train!”
“You mean the A.T.?”