Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1e.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1e!rmz From: rmz@ihu1e.UUCP (robert m. zieman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: acronyms Message-ID: <370@ihu1e.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 12:02:35 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1e.370 Posted: Fri Jan 11 12:02:35 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:55:19 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 16 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?