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Those of us in the IT industry daily have to pick out what an acronym stands for from the context. The feasible limits (particularly of the TLA - three-letter acronym) have been reached and we're now recycling them, often before the first use has been abandoned. Sometimes these multiple definitions fall within the same area of IT and can be used adjacently.
It was suggested once that to combat this IT people need to adopt a tonal variation of English where you pitch your vocalisation of a TLA at a particular tone for each specific meaning.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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