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do it for us shy folk ;) (mander.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do this on Lemmy for all the lurkers

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Apparently TLA comes form "Temporal Logic of Actions", and is a programing language.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm 100% sure that it stands for Three-Letter-Acronym. The joke is that it's an inscrutable business acronym to make fun of inscrutable business acronyms.

I actually used to do this during orientation sessions at my old job. I'd tell the new hires that if they were ever confused by terminology or acronyms, they should never be afraid to ask, because if people are using jargon or TLAs that they don't follow, they will miss the context.

Then I'd pause. If anyone asked what a TLA was, I'd give them a candy bar.

[–] Alexstarfire 6 points 10 months ago

Damn, and I was sure they meant The Last Airbender.

[–] Eheran 4 points 10 months ago

So what is delta TLA now? I assumed it is the slope of TLA line, but seeing the comments I am not so sure anymore?!

[–] NewAgeOldPerson 3 points 10 months ago

We used to have a TLA glossary in my old old job. Very handy.