On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:10:40AM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There's a special place in hell for people using ambiguous > > abbreviations, acronyms, and nicknames. > > You mean, like the whole IT industry - and in fact pretty well any industry ? > Such terms are routinely used because they make speech and writing less > verbose. I did my apprenticeship in an engineering (plenty of acronyms there) > firm that was also a supplier to the UK's navy - the defence field is a sea > of acronyms* :-) > > But back to our world, "pen testing" is a common term. A few seconds with > ${preferred_search_engine} would come up with a definition.
The trouble is with abbreviations that are common words in their own right, with the result that people not knowing it's an abbreviation will get a quite different meaning, and not know they've misunderstood. -- hendrik . > > * I was involved in software, and one day for a bit of light amusement > decided to fully expand the acronym of something I was working on. Thing is, > some of the letters in the acronym were in fact initial of other acronyms, > and by the time I'd fully expended all the levels I think a 6 letter acronym > became a whole paragraph ! > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
