AAAA

Anonymous Acronym Abuse Association

by Rickard Andersson (rickard@softlab.se)
written 19 Jan 1995

This article is classified "Partly real, partly fictional"


The AAAA is a little known association but it has a numerous amount of
people as members.  Because all you have to do to become an AAAA
member is to use an acronym once in a lifetime, preferably your own.
This makes almost every human on earth a likely candidate for the
AAAA, and the AAAA can thus be seen as a home for all humans that have
used or are using acronyms.  If you feel that you haven't joined the
AAAA yet, go ahead and write one or more acronyms.  Now feel the joy
of being a member of yet another association.

There are some organizations that have taken as their task to fight
the AAAA and its members.  One of the most unknown is AAAAAAA, which
stands for the All-American Association Against Acronym Abuse
Anonymous.  As you all can imagine their struggle to keep acronyms
from being used are doomed.  To be honest the AAAAAAA has quickly
disqualified itself from the fight by using their own acronym in
public.  A not very intelligent move from the AAAAAAA, that has left
the AAAA with more members than anyone cares to count.

"Acronyms -- what are they," some of you might be asking yourself at
this point.  Well, the word AAAA is of course an acronym and it can be
substituted with the four words Anonymous Acronym Abuse Association.
So there you have it.  An acronym is a short way of saying something
longer with a smaller set of characters than was necessary without
the acronym.

See also:
  • Abbreviations
  • CASIP And AAAAAAA
  • GAG, Guaranteed Articles Group
  • Acronyms
  • Abbreviations, List Of
  • US Naval Abbreviations

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