Acronym Creep
Acronym Creep - a condition known to beset the Canadian Chinese Christian Community (CCCC) and United Nations (UN) staff.
Akin to what's known in software developing parlance as "feature creep", acronym creep is a prediliction or tendancy to using using more and more acronyms. Imagine if you had a sentence consisting largely of acronyms. Perish the thought, right?
Well, in the UN, we're swimming in acronyms. As I've moved from the ResCo's office to UNDP RCB, I'm trying to figure out how the MDG's map with the different PTs that exist in the different regional centres (formerly known as SURFs).
I'm going a little willy-nilly at the explosion of acronyms, especially as we start reviewing content on the webpages.
And if I'm a little befuddled, I'm sure JQ Public would be completely turned off.