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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 -- Mick
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. Cheers Bob
-- Mick
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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
On 6 May 2015 at 09:23, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
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 !
In a previous job role I attended a short seminar presented by an eminent English Professor of Statistics (I can't recall his name right now) but he had that knack of being an engaging and entertaining presenter. During the talk he was presenting the various findings from a number of studies that were littered with TLAs and after the umpteenth one came up he said as and aside that when he retired he going to take up SODA...the Study Of Dubious Acronyms. -- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com
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