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From: rmz@ihu1e.UUCP (robert m. zieman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: acronyms
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 12:02:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 12:02:35 1985
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Wouldn't it be easier and faster to read and understand documents
of all sorts if acronyms were outlawed in the text of these documents.
With todays modernized computer facilities, documents could be typed
in with these acronyms in place, and then globally substituted for
before being printed out.
I've found that even if a glossary is included, sometimes the acronyms
are not defined correctly.
Maybe a common database could be accesible to all with standardized
definitions of all acronyms used by a company.
I agree acronyms are handy and easier to type and after an initial
familiarization with them, they become second nature.
But once they become familiar you aren't reading documents, you are
writing them.

Who agrees?