Afraid I have to disagree again Bob. Evolution of the language is
not a bad thing, it is a necessity of life, get used to it. With thinking
like this we would still be speaking Middle English, at best, and having
serious discussions would be extremely dificult, if not impossible. Logic
like you profess would make progress equally impossible. Would you still
have us refer to computers as Babbage computational engines? I think not.
Language evolves, into many branches, in many directions. Some things
become part of the mainstream language, others are cast aside as being
trivial to the general public.
There is no rudeness involved, no malice, simply a desire to
communicate more quickly. There is no conspiracy, period. People do not
sit around dreaming up jargon in order to keep others in the dark, they
create it to make it easier to communicate with those who understand it,
because those are the people they most need to communicate to.
When an intelligent person encounters a term he doesn't understand,
he asks or looks it up. The only stupid question is the one that isn't
asked.
Oh and by the way, IBM is an acronym as well. But tell someone you
work for International Business Machines and see how many people in the
general populace make the connection.

Kitasi

>Overuse of acronyms was one of the problems that made IBM systems difficult
>and limited their use to the priesthood. More considerate computer
>companies moved away from secret code.