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SD = Secret Doctrine

Apr 23, 2005 10:18 AM
by John


May I ask what the SD is?
Secret Doctrine.

It's one of the reasons that we need to be careful with acronyms. We may know what we write, but others who have not been around as long as others may not.

Journalists always spell out the meaning of an acronym the first them they use the acronym, then use the acronym by itself for the rest of the article. Perhaps we should be doing the same. It's not just the people we reply to that need to understand our words, but also the person who might find a message by a web search who sees it independently.

Again, just my opinion, which is not going to bug me if people don't follow it. (I'm one of the people who immediately recognized what SD meant the first time I saw it as just SD, but then I've seen the book (but don't own it). I think my mother might own own.

Every industry has it's acronyms, and people assume that everyone in that group fully understands them, but sometimes people forget that some people know other meanings for the same acronym. I used to teach Adult Education, which always got abbreviated ADED, but some people might automatically translate that as American Department of Economic Development without even thinking about it.

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