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<p>@NLP - TS;DP (too short; didn't parse) - @SAS</p>
<p>...<br>
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<p>BTW, for computer language wonks, I've been revisiting APL (A
Programming Language) recently. I fell in love with it (for
about 2 years) at the end of my BS Math/Physics for myriad
reasons, including it's parsimonious yet apt expressions of arrays
and linear algebra. I was working almost exclusively in physics
simulations and perspective geometry loaded with vectors and
arrays as well as the need for efficient text parsing/generation.
APL's features were pretty concise for both. <br>
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<p>APL was famous for one-liners long before PERL (more
appropriately Perl as PERL is apparently a <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym">backronym</a>?)
was invented?</p>
<p>for example:</p>
<pre class="programlisting">(2=0+.=T∅.|T)/T←ι
vs
perl -wle '(1 x $_) !~ /^(11+)\1+$/ && print while ++ $_'
generates primes from 1 to N
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<p>@NST @GEPR both are rigorous but not clear (to anyone not facile
in the idiom of the language)</p>
<p>I didn't work with *anyone* else on my APL, even my profs didn't
"speak" APL and I *never* expected anyone except the APL
interpreter to understand the APL I wrote. The writeup I did on
my senior project included only the barest of APL code, and always
formatted to be readable, not succinct (or cryptic)... <br>
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<p>@SAS out<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve
Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2021 5:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Nick -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I think it *can* be the thing you call out, but I encounter
it in so many contexts where that explanation doesn't really
fit. Sometimes I think it is entirely unconscious
shortcutting. On this list, for example, I use LANL (Los
Alamos National Laboratory) because I believe that *all* Santa
Fe/NM folks know what it is an acronym for and *many* non SFe
(Santa Fe) NM (New Mexico) folks know it *by now*. Similarly
I find SFI an acceptable contraction in this context. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>On the technical side, the shortcut/contraction/acronym is
often the primary/preferred reference. Even if you might not
*know* that DNA is <i>deoxyribonucleic acid</i> or ATP is <i>adenosine
triphosphate</i>... or that the YMCA is the <i>young men's
christian association</i>, for example, you know the
signified by that signifier, and in fact you *won't* know what
those contractions are *for* unless you are in fact using them
in some insider/technical sense.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I know people who work within a large but somewhat insular
community whose acronyms are myriad and they are truly NOT
trying to be exclusionary. I have a number of friends who
are either social workers or have studied in the field or have
friends/families with mental illness so I hear the acronym DSM
and I can tell it is being used in a very "insider" way. I
know little of the details, but I've gathered that "DSM II"
somehow connotes both "modern" and "not-really-modern"
psychiatric models, but I think even if I do the GoogleFu to
learn the first level of details, I would not be much less
puzzled by knowing, for example:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">DSM-I
and DSM-II</span></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;background:rgb(255, 255,
255);font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows:
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id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-11"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In
1952, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published
the DSM-I, an adaptation of a classification system
developed by the armed forces during WW2. It was designed
for use by doctors and other treatment providers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px;background:rgb(255, 255,
255);font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows:
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initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px"
id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-13"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The
DSM-I was the first of its kind, but experts agreed that
it still needed work. The DSM-II, released in 1968,
attempted to incorporate the psychiatric knowledge of the
day. It was heavily influenced by psychoanalytic concepts
that were prominent at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I think that both Glen and maybe Frank have tossed DSM or
even DSM II into the conversation here without any more
explication than I get at cocktail parties and it lands just
as dead for me, but not offensive here as there (until I get
my GoogleGoggles flashing Wikipedia/Wiktionary in my
peripheral vision with automatic explication). It even seems
like a good feature for Alexa/Siri/HeyGoogle to listen
continuously and recognize acronyms and offer
ordered-by-likelihood-from-context explications in your ear
(or in the room if you want to shame the acronymster
acrimoniously).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I understand that many are "lazy typists" who find it
patently painful (emotionally if not physically) to type
anything out. And *too many people* (IMO ... in my opinion)
do too much of their correspondence on a TS (tiny screen)
which requires them to hunt-peck with one finger (maybe two
thumbs) without touch feedback and without the benefit of
QWERTY knowledge built into their Neural Net neurons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I'm assuming Frank's OP (original post) was in response to
both some specific TLA (three letter acronym) used recently or
the accrued irritation of having to look up jargon (
especially TLAs and MLAs (multi letter acronyms)) just to
figure out a conversation he is *otherwise* informed enough on
to follow. Or both. Or maybe he's just taking out his
frustration with his daughter here where it's "safe"
<grin>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>BTW (by the way) and FWIW (for what it's worth) I think I'd
be game for one of Glen's experiments, even if the constraints
offered somehow cramped *my* style (e.g. 20 line limit on
posts, no markup-like formatting like *bold* or EMPHASIS or
_underscore_ HTML (even formatting like <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>).
or even his extremal suggestion of requiring "peer review" by
3 others before submitting (I'd probably become rather mute
over that one) WTFOMFGROFLMAOGMWAS!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>- Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
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