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Re Wi-Fi, DaveC wrote:
> Argh. An acronym, to me, requires mental translation, or decoding,
> before I can keep on reading. "Wi-Fi" puts a pothole in my reading
> road every time I come across it, and I must patch around it, knowing
> what it stands for, regardless of it's [lack of] etymological origins.
>
I have exactly the opposite experience. Although Wi-Fi is different from
other acronyms, in that the terms it represents don't give much explicit
information about the technology, the connotation is great -- music and
radio and therefore, wirelessness. Or wirelessitude. Or whatever.
Anyway, when you're at a party, would you rather say you worked on the Wi-Fi
Alliance, or the 802.11 Alliance? I think all acronyms should be similarly
sexified.
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