You can never be an IT professional. If we (IT guys and girls) wouldn't have
and use abbreviations, most of the time in conversations would be burned by using spelled-out words. DHCP is simply faster than "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol" and TCP/IP is a blink compared to "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol".
The ones I have used in the addressed posting are completely common for everybody which creates 3D prints and I used them in a 3D printing context. It's so to say addressed at the respective audience. If I had spelled out each term, nobody would have understood what I mean, not even the 3D part creator. The same applies for my answer to Tazzie: He's a doc, and they are all medicine related.
And I guess you are not one iota better:
- I doubt you usually call it "
Motion Picture Experts Group-a Audio Layer 3 file“ instead of just "mp3 file".
- or do you say "
I'll send you a 'Joint Photographic Experts Group' " picture instead of "
I'll send you a JPEG"?
- what is with saying
I have a "Portable Document Format manual" instead of "
I have a pdf manual?"
In the beginning the abbreviation rants were a running gag which was funny. But now it starts to become a bit silly. In a world of abbreviations one better not looks into the internet (sorry:
interconnected networks) if he
hates abbreviations.
I think, abbreviations aren't bad just because you don't know them.