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- From: jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: YAA - Yet Another Acronymn
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.180109.24910@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 18:01:09 GMT
- References: <ewright.714687708@convex.convex.com> <92239 <ewright.716058614@convex.convex.com> <1992Sep10.014315.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
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- In <1992Sep10.014315.1@vax1.umkc.edu> tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
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- >Saying: "We're intending to implement both EDI and EIS services using
- >SQL through DAL over DAM on an ISDN LAN, tied to PDA and PIE's through
- >OCE via ARA as a WAN, and RSTS public keys for DSV," sure sounds a lot
- >more impressive than saying, "We're going to use Macs and Newtons to
- >provide e-mail and sales figures to the executive staff."
-
- In the above, only EDI (possibly), DAL, DAM, LAN, PIE
- (possibly) and WAN are acronyms: the rest are abbreviations. An
- acronym must be pronounceable - that's what makes it an
- acronym.
-
- Just a pedantic point...
-
- Jeremy
-