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Nobody should EVER apologize for not understanding an acronym. The purpose of
acronyms is -- present company exempted! -- to solidify an ingroup by being
unintelligible to outsiders. Once, just to tease, I named a program, " MOTH"
(=Myway Or The Highway) in a paper I submitted. The editor of the journal did
not say, "WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT STUPID ACRONYM? And, once
the article was accepted for publication, I did not have the chutzpah to
admit that the name had been a joke. My shame.
ESCHEW ACRONYMS AND BUZZWORDS.
GESUNDHEIT!
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
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