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Please don't make us decode your acronym https://www.acronymfinder.com/ROW.html


I've been hesitant to talk about this too much, because it's such a bad joke, but personally I'm waging a War On Acronyms (WOA). They really don't save much time or effort, but make communication much more opaque. They can be a way of in-group signaling, which just makes it harder for newcomers / outsiders to come up to speed. And so many collisions.


RoW is not opaque. It’s widely used especially in academia. Acronyms exists for a good reason. If you like everything spelled out please stop using apostrophes while you’re at it.


Very solipsistic take. Most people don't live in your bubble.


I don't live in the USA. Never heard of it.




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