Overuse of acronyms is like using obscure variable names in programming. Communication suffers.
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In any large organization where acronyms multiply left and right, you will quickly end up in meetings where half of the people talk about the new YDG and its advantages over NRK, and the other half have no clue what that means...
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This is why I have a saying that goes: “never trust someone that talks about an acronym/initialism that doesn’t know what the acronym/initialism stands for.”
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I had to stop a meeting this week and ask because they re-used an acronym for something different
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So true. In some cases, people who use it also do not know what it stands for. It becomes so ubiquitous that it is assumed one should know it, but actually many don't but still use it.
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And If the org culture makes it hard for the other half to ask what is that? then the company is doomed.
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That’s a classic case of ZTJ
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A singularly American language disorder (SALD).
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