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TLA = too lazy analorifice
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TLA Three Letter Abbreviation
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLA Talk, Listen, Act (United Parcel Service training)
TLA Telemetry Link Adapter
TLA Telephone Line Adapter
TLA Temporary Lodging Allowance
TLA Temporary Lodging Assistance
TLA Term Loan A
TLA Terminal Low Altitude
TLA Terminate and Leave Activated
TLA Territorial Local Authorities (New Zealand)
TLA Texas Library Association
TLA Thin Layer Activation
TLA Tie Line Class A (24 hours/day service)
TLA Time Line Analysis
TLA Top Level Aggregate
TLA Top Level Alarm
TLA Total Living Allowance
TLA Training Level Assignment
TLA Transmit Level Adjustment
TLA Transportation Lawyers Association
TLA Travel & Living Allowance
TLA Trial Lawyers Association
TLA True Love Always
TLA Two Letter Acronym (less common)
Which would you like it to be?
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None of the above. Thank you, consuelo.
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Well, just for the record it's Three Letter Acronym. TLAs are typically from computing rather than the Internet itself. I suppose that since a fair number of web users are also computer geeks there is a cross over. I don't believe that the Internet (aka the web, anyway) is "responsible" for the new rash of a lack of appropriate capitalisation. That's just laziness, bad education and copying what others do. The web has really become a case of descent to the level of the lowest common denominator, since the only restriction (in most places) on access to it is money, and that barrier to entry is virtually non-existent in many countries. Therefore, some high school dropout from the barrio in East LA is just as likely to have access to the net as a graduate of UCLA or Harvard or the Dunny on the Wold Community College. Of course, according to Bill I should have spelled out "Los Angeles" rather than typing "LA" and "University of California, Los Angeles" rather than "UCLA"! I know he would never use such offensive contractions ...  We also have a large number of people who are not native English speakers on the net and their general ignorance of the finer points of English, while even more understandable, will also be contributing significantly to the descent of English, at least as used on the net, to something else entirely. It's just the way things are. You can only avoid it by not using the net. Up to you, really. Acronyms are inevitable. Antediluvian carping on about their existence is a bit Cnut-ish, these days. Now's there's a three-way pun for you ... Well, that's my .8p worth.
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Dear MaxQ: My bio shows that "wwh" stands for William W. Hunt. The middle "W" stands for "Woodbridge". I used to get teased about it. I have seen documentation that the Woodbridge family had eight successive generations of Congregational ministers, all of whom would disapprove of me. I think it a bit unkind to mock my initials.
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wwh: I think the name Woodbridge possesses much dignity. The word bridge itself connates dignity.
Symbolic potential and practical function aside, from reading through recents posts about the Romans on various threads, I came across the information that the Roman pontiff derived from those persons of highly respected engineering skills who were able to design and implement the building of bridges (see: pont).
I have a whimsical, probably completely unfounded belief that we carry genetic memory--and my whimsical belief whispers atavistic words of wonder about anything related to bridges...save dental and other tangential variations.
Also wood is about the best thing in the whole world to a tree lover! I was probably a termite in my former life.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that Woodbridge is a rich name, full of wonder and resonance, she said, while clip-clopping over its span
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Dear WW: thank you for your kind words. I said in another post that I have a lot to be modest about, and I was quite serious. Perhaps I get too serious about some things, and attack with undue force. I have so often been baffled by acronyms that I cannot help resenting their being used without meaning being given in beginning of text. I still believe they are useful only to the perpetrator, not to the reader.
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Dear MaxQ: I knew very well you did not intend to hurt my feelings. But in identifying myself as wwh, I was using minimum letters sufficient to establish identity, yet make reply to me easy. I was only pretending that you were slyly thinking of me as "Willy Wanking Horror" or something of the sort.
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