Craig Sawyers wrote:
There are all sorts of possibilities for communication confusion if you use TLA's, or acronyms of any sort.
I.P.A. being such an example. One is nice to drink; the other, if drunk, will destroy your eye-sight.
Many years ago in a book about Doing Clever Things With MS-DOS, I met 'ETLA' = extended three-letter acronym. Refers to any acronym whose letters are more than three. I've never met that term anywhere since reading that book.
My personal favourite of such is what I call the 'TANSTAAFL Principle': there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Al.