Robert Parker wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Michele Bert <micbert75@gmail.com> wrote:
2015-05-05 15:04 GMT+02:00 Andrew McGlashan < andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>:
What is ITYM?????
Thanks a lot for asking. I'm curious too, but I've given up long time ago to ask (or even search on the web) for acronyms' meaning...
However, you know: a project will never succeed, unless it is associated to a smart TLA, will it? :-D
Sorry no, success or failure is irrelevant. The TLA is the ONLY issue that decides whether a project is funded or not. This is true for all organisations that use the bureaucratic management model, whether public, private or academic.
I hope amongst all this hilarity , it is clear that the linguistic function of acronyms is to provide a systematic way of 'coining'; words which are simultaneously clear, distinct and precise. To this end a three letter acronym whilst clear and recognisable, may suffer from ambiguity eg see http://www.acronymfinder.com/TLA.html whilst a seven letter acronym whilst less ambiguous will suffer from ease of recognition ! regards Rohan McLeod