ANSWERS: 4
  • I think the whole idea stemmed from mnemonics to help remember a name or phrase. Perhaps it was the other way around.
  • We are Borg. Our advanced communicative capacity does not require the use of primitive human linguistic techniques. The acronym, which will be assimilated, gained widespread usage in Earth's twentieth Abrahamic century, with the advent of growingly complicated technical jargon. Resistance is futile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Historical_and_current_use
  • Its main driving force was the Air Forces of various contries during WWII. Communication by radio and it need for speed during combat and crisis situations, combined with the sometimes distorted quality of the sound produced required a rapid and clear vocabulary. The bureaucracy involved in thse endeavours also led to a large increase in the size of the civil services, increasing the number of bureaucratic units with increasingly more complex names. It is simpler and faster to say 'J4' than to say 'Joint Forces Logistics Fourth Division for the Rapid Deployment of Personnel.'
  • WDTIOUACF? laziness, I suppose!

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