On Sun, 2014-10-19 at 17:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/19/2014 04:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> It can be either Distribution or Density. Also a few other things (see
> Wikipedia). That's the problem with specialist terminology where the
> context isn't completely clear, e.g. we all know what ATM is when
> talking about a banking network, right? (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Or
> DOS when talking about computers (Denial Of Service). I could go on.
Yes, TLAs do tend to get overloaded, don't they? I remember reading,
years ago, that somebody had told a co-worker, "ATM the ATM is off the ATM."
Nice one :-)
poc