there’s a lot of TLA’s in the world

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    That’s not a great acronym in a language where many different numerals start with the letter T. Could be a two letter acronym, ten letter acronym, twelve letter acronym, thirteen letter acronym, thirty letter acronym, thousand letter acronym, …

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      Because we have so many ten letter acronyms and exponentially more twelve, thirteen and thirty letter ones, that its simply too confusing for the advanced modern mind

      Rather, two letter acronyms are less common and three letter acronyms are highly favoured in this language of ours