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Four-letter words
Our suspicion that the debate on the extended three letter abbreviation (or ETLA) could get complicated proves correct.
As you will recall, we are running short of addressable space for TLAs, there being only 17,000 of them, and a need for at least 10 times that amount of abbreviated gibberish by 2010. We are being approximate with the figures and dates, because – unlike in the rest of Computing – we make the figures up on the spur of the moment.
Anyway, Tim Franks at Dukesbridge Chambers suggests that the ETLA should perhaps be named the four-letter abbreviation.
The problem with this is that it is now an FLA. Which has, you note, three letters.
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