Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 possible TLAs

Posted by donohoe on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:32PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1492019910003859469

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by btown on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:56PM (#30308489)

For another fun dive into three-letter acronyms, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IATA_airport_code#Naming_conve... is fascinating!

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by fristechill on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:03AM (#30312148)

As 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.

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by ncmncm on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:57PM (#30309191)

In other news, scientific papers have failed to use 6% of the possible TLAs.

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by leed25d on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:41PM (#30308378)

Maybe the folks at MIT should look in to it

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by superluserdo on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:45PM (#30308854)

They already have Harvey of Harvey and Sheila on the case

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by MichaelZuo on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:04PM (#30308568)

Looks like we need to move on to the four letter acronym domain space, the FLADS.

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by pfdietz on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:46PM (#30308417)

Time to move to ETLAs.

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Re:Scientific papers have has now used 94% of the 17,576 pos... by ggm on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:16PM (#30308669)

There's a post production system for that. GEB probably writes about it. Emile Post, not Disney "fixed in post" post production.

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