"The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation."
- Philip Hammond In my blogs and book, "Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email", I stress that good Netiquette requires a minimum of abbreviations as they typically create more negatives than not. Mail can be misunderstood, spell checkes will not properly correct and the actual reading time by the recipient is usually prolonged.
As the United States military shows, abbreviations can be employed at an astonidhing rate. For those of us familiar with many forms of our respective goverments, this can be a similar experience.
Let's all make sure we deliver the best Netiquette and clearest messages we can, all the time!
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Some industries are full of acronyms and abbreviations. IT and Accounting are examples. In some cases, we need to consider our audience when writing in order to decide on when acronyms are appropriate and when the spelled-out version should be used.
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