On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 09:37:00 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: >Newbie auditors are notorious for 'spelling out' abbreviations that over >the decades have become actual names. And yes, idiocy is only one >consequence. The result can be gibberish. > A long time favorite is a local newscaster who read a story attributing a DC-10 crash to a failure of an "eh-eff-tee cargo hatch."
>My favorite basket case is 'TSO', which was in ancient history Time Sharing >Option. For as long as anyone can remember, TSO has not involved 'time >sharing' in any meaningful way. > What would you say? "Time Slicing"? "Divided Property Ownership"? > ... Nor is it remotely optional. Spelling out >the words contributes nothing to any discussion. > So you pronounce it as in "General TSO's Chicken"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
