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> IANAEE (I am not an electrical engineer). Why not just write "I am not an electrical engineer"? Defeats the purpose if you still have to explain it.
by usaphp 10y ago
> IANAEE (I am not an electrical engineer).
Why not just write "I am not an electrical engineer"? Defeats the purpose if you still have to explain it.
- madez 10y agoI appreciate they wrote it the way they did. I didn't know what the abbreviation would have meant, and now I do. Also, I now have a clue what "IANA" at the start of an abbreviation I have never seen before might mean.
- cr0sh 10y agoI was informed by a long time user (Grumpy Mike) of the Arduino forums when I first started posting there that one should -always- explain the first usage of an acronym or similar construct before using it elsewhere in the rest of a comment. It makes sense from the perspective of the fact that not all users may understand what the acronym means at first, and doing this is a great courtesy (also, it removes ambiguity in instances where you may be using an acronym similar or same as that for another domain - perhaps the domain of the forum or medium you are communicating on).
- ClassyJacket 10y agoJust a sort of joke, I guess, playing on the IANAL acronym.