Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01511)

Thank you,

I agree, the closest thing I could think of was South Dakota. :)

-Mark H.

On 4/23/05, John <GodLovesEveryone.org@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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Mark Hamilton Jr.
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