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.




The idiot also known as Capfka ...