Comments on: AAPWYGOA

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:11:05 +0000

How about “PASS” where one of the “words” is yet another acronymn!

By: Michael Swart

Michael Swart — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:17:36 +0000

HOBT is a nice one.

Some I don’t like:

http://dbwhisperer.blogspot.com/2009/03/sql-server-jargon.html

By: Rob Boek

Rob Boek — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:23:02 +0000

Intel was horrible with acronyms. Everyone uses them constantly and a lot of people only know the acronym. If you actually used the words they wouldn’t know what you are talking about.

My favorite was NGIP which stood for “Next Generation Information Platform”, but was referred to lovingly within the group as “Not Going Into Production”.

By: SDC

SDC — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:11:16 +0000

The all time winner for most acronyms for me was AT&T. When I worked there, everybody threw around (mostly company-specific, not even industry-specific stuff you had some prayer of looking up) acronyms expecting everybody to know what they were talking about.

The Richard Stallman (GNU, HURD) acronyms are my favorite, because with the recursion and all you know he pulled some muscles in the effort to be cute.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:18:07 +0000

I’ve always been partial to TLA (Three Letter Acronym).

Usually found in the wild in such contexts as “ASP? JSP? PSP? The last thing the world needs is another TLA.”