21-April-2008, 08:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vanamonde
TLA - Three Letter Acronyms. And yes, it is one, itself.
This is one of my pet peeves - especially after spending a few years with perhaps, the greatest wholesale manufacturer of TLA's, International Business Machines, Inc. I would drive people crazy by asking them what the TLA's stood for. It turns out, in that culture, people really remembered the expansion.
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I'd like to see a comparison between IBM and NASA. Whenever I start supporting a new mission, the first thing I have to do is to figure out all the acronyms.
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