This is another reason for controlled language/vocabulary within
organizations/industries but I won't go there for now...

While growing up my father worked for the US Government (NASA) and we lived
(still do) just outside Washington DC.  As we experienced the onslaught of
hordes of abbreviations and acronyms (rules calling on our Federal Agencies
to use plain language be dammed) I made up an acronym of my own.

IDCWTIA - "In DC we talk in acronyms!"

Happy Friday All!

Tod Chernikoff, CRM

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Gervais, JohnA
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:17 AM
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Subject: [RM] OT Acronyms

I don't know if anybody is as fed up with acronyms as I am.  Two sent to me
this week were emsg and wiifm (e-mail message and what's in it for me).  Why
can't people just say what they want to say, instead of writing this way?
Instant and text messaging has only encouraged the younger generation to
write this way.  Sometimes I can't understand half of people's messages.  I
guess I am showing my age. However, from a records management perspective,
if we were to retrieve many of these records years from now, from archives,
would we be able to read and understand the context of the message?  Records
provide evidentiary value and should be contextual and make sense.  Cheers.

John Gervais
613-946-0245
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The opinions expressed in this post are personal and do not represent that
of my employers.




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