Yep. It's particularly bad at NASA; when I started there the first thing I did was to start compiling a glossary, because emails (etc) were full of so many acro

Yep. It's particularly bad at NASA; when I started there the first thing I did was to start compiling a glossary, because emails (etc) were full of so many acronyms that might be defined in many different documents. Maybe they've gotten better -- Emily Lakdawalla posted the other day a photo labeling Mars rover parts like "secondary thwack arm" and "rabbit hole". If you give things short vivid names you'll be less tempted to acronym them.