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I am in Aerospace - probably the industry that uses more acronyms than any other.
I often say in a meeting "We have reached EOOA".
Others say "What??"
I respond "Extreme Overuse Of Acronyms"
Here's a good one.
We have devices on the spacecraft that are now called "Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers" or TWTAs. (tweet-A-s)
When I started in the Industry they were called "Travelling Wave Amplifer Tubes"
Can you see why they changed the order of the words?
Certain people were not happy with the old acronym.
Dont forget JAFO - "Just another fucking Observer"
And we had some racks where the acronym was "SCATS".
It took months to figure out why communication was so poor on that program.
It was because companies on each side of the program had that particular term blacklisted in the email SPAM filter so people were not receiving emails.
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