# Talking sense about acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and neologisms - without bullshit

<https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/abbreviations-and-acronyms-never-speak-of-this-again>

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## What Jamie wrote

The technology industry has to be one of the most severely acronym'd industries out there.

> Abbreviations, initialisms, acronyms, and neologisms are jargon. You want to keep the density of jargon in your writing low to make it as readable as possible. Writing full of unfamiliar jargon is a struggle to parse, and perpetuates the curse of knowledge.

It would do us well to use less of them.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT90: Weekly Thing #90 / Jan 26, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/90/), Notable Links 📌

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