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To: Opinionated Blowhard
They have to come up with an acronym for everything. They can't help themselves.

The military is even worse. I once attended a high level classified briefing at Patterson AFB. Lots of generals and other senior officers. I could not understand half of what they were talking about because of all the acronym. Might as well been in a foreign language.

During one of the breaks I mentioned it to one of the junior officers. A short time later he handed me a two page cheat sheet with all the acronyms explained so I could follow the briefing.

I guess I was not the first to mention the problem.

30 posted on 09/25/2024 8:05:20 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: usurper

I saw the same thing in the private sector in commercial mortgage banking.

All newbies were handed a glossary of terms as part of the on-boarding process.

It ran about ten pages single spaced—hundreds of terms and acronyms.

Every sector speaks its own language in this highly specialized world.


40 posted on 09/25/2024 9:53:33 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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