Another reminder that acronyms are a foreign language to many
A colleague informs us via e-mail that he sent to a transcription service a long recorded interview that included mention of one of the world’s most respected standards-making organizations.
The resultant transcript identified this body as: iTripoli.
Priceless.
And having realized long ago that there is no such thing as an original thought – even a mistaken one – I did a search on iTripoli to see how often it would come up.
Not that often, as it turns out, but the particular IEEE/iTripoli confusion has been noted previously (and I would assume regularly, in IEEE inner circles).
There is also a small company called iTripoli.
And Tripoli is the name of a major rocketry association. While you might suspect the rocket geeks of naming their club after the IEEE, that isn’t the case. According to their Web site, it had to do with a handful of World War II-era gold coins from Tripoli, Lebanon.
What goes around comes around.
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