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John Chambers

Re: Emcee

March 8, 2006, 10:43 p.m. (Message 44590, in reply to message 44535)

| I eventually worked out that TLA meant "Three Letter Acronym"
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| TTFN (that's an FLA no doubt!)
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| Graham Hamilton

One of the better examples of the humor in  the  computer  industry's
"jargon file" is that the correct acronym in this case is ETLA, which
stands for Extended Three-Letter Acronym.  It's a great parody of how
such  things  are often done.  And note that, just as TLA is itself a
TLA, ETLA is also an ETLA.


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