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TMCA
Sorry to bother you all with this mundane subject, but I must ask you to
refrain from using Too Many Cryptic Acronyms.
I can find easily the definition for technical acronyms, and even some
common ones like ASAP, BTW and IMHO, but it is very hard to find the
meaning of others -- most of them can't be found in dictionaries, and we
non-anglophones simply have no way of guessing what they mean... I spent 20
minutes on google just to find what is a PITA.
A few extra keystrokes don't hurt, but can do wonders for clarity and save
us a lot of time.
By the way, typing PITA instead of writing it out in full does not minorate
the impact of the expression.
...TYVM?
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Petrobrás (http://www.petrobras.com.br)
mailto:jaccoud@petrobras.com.br
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Re: TMCA
Posted by Johan Åbrandt <jo...@profitsoftware.com>.
jaccoud@petrobras.com.br wrote:
> Sorry to bother you all with this mundane subject, but I must ask you to
> refrain from using Too Many Cryptic Acronyms.
> I can find easily the definition for technical acronyms, and even some
> common ones like ASAP, BTW and IMHO, but it is very hard to find the
> meaning of others -- most of them can't be found in dictionaries, and we
> non-anglophones simply have no way of guessing what they mean... I spent 20
> minutes on google just to find what is a PITA.
http://www.keno.org/acronyms.htm
I spent 20 seconds finding that on google...but then I did RTFM =)
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Re: TMCA
Posted by Ben Fowler <bf...@ewitness.co.uk>.
At 10:21 am -0300 27/2/2003, jaccoud@petrobras.com.br wrote:
>...
>By the way, typing PITA instead of writing it out in full does not minorate
>the impact of the expression.
It most definitely does minish what would otherwise be an offensive
expression. Consider RTFM as another example.
Sure you may need to check these expressions when you first meet
them, but the saving in time and gain to communication last for ever.
Ben,
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