I am a Civil Servant, working in the UK. At work I am often baffled by TLAs, but it is a way of life in the Civil Service, and you learn to live with it.
I've also noticed a tendency to use TLAs regularly on this forum, with one being used as a subject header earlier today. OK, I worked it out eventually, but why, why, why do we do it to ourselves?
"There's no plausible or convincing reason, certainly no evidential one, to believe that there is such an entity (= deity) and that all observable phenomena, including the cosmological ones... are explicable without the hypothesis; you don't need the assumption."
IMO if one uses a TDA that the majority will not know the text should be written first and the TDA in brackets afterwards
Maybe someone should compile a TDA database
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
Wood Green Animal Shelters
Whole-Genome Association Study
West Gloucestershire Art Society
Who Gives A Sweat? (polite form)
Web Graphics Artist Society
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
Correct English
A tla should not be used in the heading. The first time it is used it should be followed by the full details in brackets.
Vft (very funny thread) mml (made me laugh) Iwnfo (work it out lol)
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richard,
I hate to be picky but WGAS and FAFITS are not TLAs. The first is a FLAB (Four Letter ABbreviation) and the second is YASLA (Yet Another Six Letter Acronym). But then again I am a NPB (work it out yourselves )
Pete 
