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5 Post author: billswift 12 August 2011 08:41PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2011 02:01:32AM 1 point [-]

Easy measure: make all acronyms at least four letters long. I pick the number four because three-letter acronyms usually have many associated Wikipedia articles, while four-letter acronyms usually have at most one.

Amusingly, the obvious (in my mind) abbreviation for "four-letter acronym" conflicts with a certain free lossless audio codec.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 13 August 2011 08:47:10PM 0 points [-]

The usual abbreviation for "four-letter abbreviation" is "ETLA".

Comment author: bbleeker 15 August 2011 01:32:02PM 1 point [-]

I thought that was XTLA.