Although such misunderstandings are certainly crucial in humanistic and social situations, they are often of immediate import and the trigger to disaster in scientific, technical, and political situations. Such use should help avoid many of the misunderstandings involving terminology which occur daily. Its effective application to the art of communication is urged. It is then for the reader and listener and for the writer and speaker that Reta C. As a consequence, what we write and speak is full of mystery and confusion. Many among us, though, either have not received or have chosen to ignore such advice. More than once in recent months my peers have cautioned me about my apparent readiness to use not only acronyms, but abbreviations, foreign isms, codes, and other cryptic symbols rather than common, ordinary American words. Acronym agglomeration is an affliction of the age, and there are acronym addicts who, in their weakness, find it impossible to resist them.
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