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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Geez, barry. And I thought I had made it up. I was just teasing. In my line of work (I think of myself ultimately as a writer) the burden of proof is always with the generator of the text. I assume that nobody has time to mess with acronyms. If I want to be understood, I have to be clear. I assume it’s the same with programming. TRIAR. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Barry MacKichan<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2021 5:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>When I see someting like BICBW,<br>1. I double click it<br>2. Get into a Google screen (or Duck Duck Go) (5 keystrokes using Launchbar on a Mac) It is unnecessary to copy it; Launchbar can with the selection.<br>3. Hit return.<br>4. Three out of the first five links contain the definition in the first line of the blurb. “BICBW stands for But I Could Be Wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Elapsed time: about five seconds.<br>Time to write this email, about 90 seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>—Barry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On 25 Jan 2021, at 17:31, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #777777 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>I assume when people use acronyms it is to communicate their membership in a club that I am not qualified to join, and they want me to be sure I know that. So the medium IS the message. Also, i’s a useful move in an interpersonal power game. It forces the other person to come groveling back for an explication. BICBW<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>