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924	don't expand acronyms so much	azfkubsdob@…	lfs-book@…	"Writing things like ""Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)"" is goofy for several reasons:

1) If the reader isn't already familiar with the term ""IDE"", they should have stopped
reading several chapters back
2) The standard CMS (Chicago Manual of Style) rule about expanding acronyms
assumes that the expansion of the acronym carries more information than the acronym
itself. That is not the case here, where the acronym is essentially a word in and of itself,
no one *ever* uses the expansion, and all of the related terms (SCSI, SATA, etc) are
built from completely orthogonal sets of words.
3) Knowing what IDE stands for is useless in the context of LFS anyway. It will not make
users more linux-guru-ish (I bet Linus doesn't know what IDE stands for), it will not let
them ask for help more coherently, etc."	defect	closed	lowest		Book	TESTING	normal	invalid