Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01510)

> May I ask what the SD is?
Secret Doctrine.

It's one of the reasons that we need to be careful with acronyms. We may 
know what we write, but others who have not been around as long as 
others may not.

Journalists always spell out the meaning of an acronym the first them 
they use the acronym, then use the acronym by itself for the rest of the 
article. Perhaps we should be doing the same. It's not just the people 
we reply to that need to understand our words, but also the person who 
might find a message by a web search who sees it independently.

Again, just my opinion, which is not going to bug me if people don't 
follow it. (I'm one of the people who immediately recognized what SD 
meant the first time I saw it as just SD, but then I've seen the book 
(but don't own it). I think my mother might own own.

Every industry has it's acronyms, and people assume that everyone in 
that group fully understands them, but sometimes people forget that some 
people know other meanings for the same acronym. I used to teach Adult 
Education, which always got abbreviated ADED, but some people might 
automatically translate that as American Department of Economic 
Development without even thinking about it.

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