4 ms·
Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 possible TLAs
- leed25d 5y agoMaybe the folks at MIT should look in to it
- superluserdo 5y agoThey already have Harvey of Harvey and Sheila on the case
- pfdietz 5y agoTime to move to ETLAs.
- ggm 5y agoThere's a post production system for that. GEB probably writes about it. Emile Post, not Disney "fixed in post" post production.
- btown 5y agoFor another fun dive into three-letter acronyms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code#Naming_conventions_in_general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code#Naming_conve... is fascinating!
- MichaelZuo 5y agoLooks like we need to move on to the four letter acronym domain space, the FLADS.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- ncmncm 5y agoIn other news, scientific papers have failed to use 6% of the possible TLAs.
- AnnoyedComment 5y ago
- fristechill 5y agoAs the web matures it is time now to abandon acronyms and most other forms of abbreviation, in my opinion. At best they confuse at least some people and at worst they are shibboleths. Little would be lost since those rare abbreviations which turn out to be genuinely useful and communicative will make it into the dictionaries regardless of what we do.