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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by gumby on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:33PM (#23204889)
We need to expand the TLA space.

The only options I can think of are increasIng the number of letters and redefining “T” to “tetra” or even “thirty”.

Time to get started on a new RFC

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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by Sharlin on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:10PM (#23205202)
ETLAs got you covered:

https://wiki.c2.com/?ExtendedThreeLetterAcronym

Although I'd like to see something like XTLAs, for eXtensible Three Letter Acronyms.

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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by mkr-hn on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:53PM (#23205070)
You can never have too many The Last Airbender spinoffs.
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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by foolmeonce on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:19PM (#23205293)
I guess I'm still not getting TLA, since my Temporal Logic of Actions model says there should only be 17 valid spinoff states.
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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by jfk13 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:40PM (#23207424)
Have you checked out the Unicode character repertoire recently? There are a lot more than 26 letters to play with.
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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by gumby on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:18PM (#23209279)
We have to restrict outprselves to phonetic alphabets, abjads, and abugidas else they can’t truly be “acronyms”
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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by stickfigure on Saturday May 16, 2020 @12:51PM (#23205054)
Perhaps consider a FLAX?

Four letter acronym, experimental.

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Re:Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 9... by gumby on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:04AM (#23209727)
That will only work until the RFC is approved, at which time the X will be dropped.
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