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FYI: an ETA for an ETLA, needed PDQ

The debate still rages into what might be this year’s big technology story: how to extend the TLA.
‘What is the problem?’ you ask. Allow Sue Flower at Elsevier to explain.
‘STDs confuse me – why do you need clinics for dialling codes?’
This is why we need four letters for all three-letter abbreviations from now on. But obviously the first thing to do is to name the ETLA using a suitable ETLA.
‘Computerised reallocation of acronyms protocol,’ suggests Simon Ellison, who really should get himself a job in marketing.
‘No doubt the Europeans would call it an ATLP – acronyme ou abréviation de trois lettres prolongée,’ says Phil Howard-Knight at Bank of America.
‘A TLA is actually already four letters: YABA – yet another bloody acronym,’ says Phil Hodges at Canon.

January 3, 2007 in backbytes | Permalink

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abbreviations.com
don't get confuse anymore...

Posted by :Yigal Ben Efraim | January 3, 2007 4:38 PM

abbreviations.com

Don't get confuse anymore...

Posted by :Yigal Ben Efraim | January 3, 2007 4:39 PM

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