Used only in
situations where you wish to
confuse,
impress (When you really do not), or if you're just too lazy to say it all. There is a plague on the
english language adding complexity where is is not needed.
Recently (Which is a very
relative word) A LOT of acronyms have apeared in the
tech industry, adding confusion to a lot of un-educated
users, for example "My 466
MHz with 128
Meg's of
SDRAM running RH
Linux 6.1 needs to be fixed, everything from its
AGP video card right to its
CPU. My
CD-RW is broken, however my original
CD-ROM works fine. The
software end is no better,
KDE is evil, as is
GNOME. I'm considering swiching to
Win98 & LS, however I'd lose my settings for my
HTTPd &
FTPd...." (It goes on and on.... For example: In Programming:
HTML,
XHTML,
CSS,
OBJ,
XML,
XUL,
C,
C++,
ASM,
VB,
JS, VBS, VBX, VBA,
MOD,
LISP,
COBOL.... and so on). You (and I as well) should not blame just the tech fields for the acronym
dilemma (they are only a part),
legal fields, and
business fields are also large contributors (Example:
AAC,
APC,
LLC, etc).
Acronyms are a tool to
simplify and not
confuse, it should be kept that way.