Comments on: Pushed too far http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/19/pushed-too-far-2/ Manifesto-driven development. Eclectic thoughts. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris (not that one, another one) http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/19/pushed-too-far-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4735 Chris (not that one, another one) Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:58:31 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/?p=184#comment-4735 The pedant in me would insist that for TLA to be self-referrential, the A must stand for 'Abbreviation' not 'Acronym', since TLA isn't the latter... The pedant in me would insist that for TLA to be self-referrential, the A must stand for ‘Abbreviation’ not ‘Acronym’, since TLA isn’t the latter…

]]> By: Chris http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/19/pushed-too-far-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4734 Chris Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:55:12 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/?p=184#comment-4734 I think I remember IBM declaring that IBM no longer stood for International Business Machines and that the IBM TLA was canonised to proper noun status. This, I surmise, was to stop pedants from wincing when people talked about their IBM machines. SAS used to stand for Statistical Analysis Software. People would talk about their SAS software and this presented the same marketing problem amongst the pedantic target audience as IBM. That explains why they moved to noun-ify SAS at about the same time as IBM. I think I remember IBM declaring that IBM no longer stood for International Business Machines and that the IBM TLA was canonised to proper noun status. This, I surmise, was to stop pedants from wincing when people talked about their IBM machines.

SAS used to stand for Statistical Analysis Software. People would talk about their SAS software and this presented the same marketing problem amongst the pedantic target audience as IBM. That explains why they moved to noun-ify SAS at about the same time as IBM.

]]> By: Alastair http://brainsnorkel.com/2005/10/19/pushed-too-far-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4733 Alastair Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:28:33 +0000 http://brainsnorkel.com/?p=184#comment-4733 Yes, it was a bit of a TLA acronym overload. Yes, it was a bit of a TLA acronym overload.

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