Whether or not the use of acronyms and abbreviations is a symptom of laziness or understanding is circumstantial.
- A person may use abbreviations and acronyms because he or she understands the meaning or just because they are lazy.
- Many acronyms and abbreviations are misleading because they mean different things to different people. For example, NBA is popularly known to mean "National Basketball Association". In Computing, it means "Network Behaviour Analysis", while in Australia, it means National Bank of Australia.
Because one acronym can mean different things to different people, there are rules that if followed resolves the issues of misinterpretation.
- do a mental check to see if the target audience would understand the abbreviation is used in your presentation. If they won't, it's best to spell it out in full the first time it is used and about five more times above that. This applies to books and reports.
- Never use abbreviations if your literary work is fictional
In some cases, it may be okay to abbreviate. Such circumstances include but are not limited to:
- When writing to close friends
- When writing or presenting to people within the same discipline. For example marketing or Law;
- There is little risk when the abbreviation is well-known.
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