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

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

by donohoe • 4 years ago

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leed25d• 4 years ago

Maybe the folks at MIT should look in to it

superluserdo• 4 years ago

They already have Harvey of Harvey and Sheila on the case

pfdietz• 4 years ago

Time to move to ETLAs.

ggm• 4 years ago

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

btown• 4 years ago

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

MichaelZuo• 4 years ago

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

ncmncm• 4 years ago

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

fristechill• 4 years ago

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.