[BigMackCam]

ISO is a TLA

Wikipedia history of film sensitivity standards. Here are the sensitivity acronyms most commonly used on PF.

• DIN = Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization)
• ASA = American Standards Association
• ISO = International Organization for Standardization

You (or Wikipedia) neglected to mention the Soviet GOST - gosudarstvennyy standart (ГОСТ - государственный стандарт)

EDIT: My bad... that's an FLA, isn't it?

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Last edited by BigMackCam; 07-11-2019 at 05:21 PM.

[Andy123]

Am I the only one who gets frustrated when I try to read a posting, only having to go away and try to figure out exactly what is being asked or discussed because I'm unfamiliar with the "three-letter-acronyms" (TLA's) or other abbreviations that litter many messages with no explanation of what is being referred to?


I appreciate that a lot of "text-speak" has merged into modern language (lol) and in a 140-character environment or on a 2400-baud connection they may be desirable, but in the ultra-mega-bandwidths of the modern internet couldn't we stick to at least one occurrence of a fully expanded text definition with the TLA in brackets (as above) if one anticipates using the same phrase on several occasions in the post?

Kypfer,
I thought your request was reasonable and the “humorous” responses were sad. I see you have only been a member for a year and a half and can understand your issue. I find if the discussion has too many acronyms it probably will be a back and forth of opinions that are not that valuable. Just skip it and view the many quality pics posted in the various areas. I get way more from that anyway.

Andy

[tvdtvdtvd]

You (or Wikipedia) neglected to mention the Soviet GOST - gosudarstvennyy standart (or ГОСТ - государственный стандарт)

That's a FLA, not a TLA.

[monochrome]

You (or Wikipedia) neglected to mention the Soviet GOST - gosudarstvennyy standart (ГОСТ - государственный стандарт)

EDIT: My bad... that's an FLA, isn't it?

I qualified my statement above referencing acronyms commonly used on PF. I also left off BSO, a British organization seen in WikiP.

[BigMackCam]

Kypfer,
I thought your request was reasonable and the “humorous” responses were sad.

Nobody's having a go at Kypfer so far as I can see, Andy... most, if not all, of the responses have been good-natured and/or factual. This place is like a photography club... we should be able to (and usually do) have good-natured fun with each other. At least, that's been my experience in the years I've been active here...

TLAs, FLAs, and however-many-other-LAs are just a fact of the hobby and no worse than any other specialist area of interest

[GUB]

Ummmm

[stevebrot]

Ummmm

Ummmm...the ellipsis in the image obscure the part explaining that it is an abbreviation...some other stuff too...link below...

International Organization for Standardization - Wikipedia

Agree, however, that it is not an acronym, per se.


Steve

[GUB]

Ummm abbreviated from the Greek word isos (removing the s) - not an acronym.
EDIT Sorry Stevebrot with the red froth in front of my eyes I didn't see your last sentence!

[stevebrot]

You (or Wikipedia) neglected to mention the Soviet GOST - gosudarstvennyy standart (ГОСТ - государственный стандарт)

EDIT: My bad... that's an FLA, isn't it?

GOST is not really an acronym either, nor is it an abbreviation. It is the Latin character transliteration of the Cyrillic character acronym and might be termed a symbolic representation.

BTW...how do Russian speakers pronounce ГОСТ?


Steve

[stevebrot]

Ummm abbreviated from the Greek word isos (removing the s) - not an acronym.

That explanation was applied retrospectively.

...During the founding meetings of the new organization, the Greek word explanation was not invoked, so this meaning may have been made public later.

The official line goes like this...

ISO gives this explanation of the name: "Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO."

I take that to mean that the three Latin characters (ISO) serve to stand-in for the actual names/acronyms in the three official renderings, hence the significance of "equals".


Steve

[dbs]

Simple question

What does TLA stand for.......please

I do not know it

[BigMackCam]

Simple question

What does TLA stand for.......please

I do not know it

Three Letter Acronym

E.g. "IBM" for International Business Machines...

[GUB]

That explanation was applied retrospectively.



The official line goes like this...



I take that to mean that the three Latin characters (ISO) serve to stand-in for the actual names/acronyms in the three official renderings, hence the significance of "equals".


Steve

Yes and they seem pretty determined to present it as ISO not Iso. But it is an elegant solution for a body trying to establish an international constant

[dbs]

Three Letter Acronym

E.g. "IBM" for International Business Machines...

Thankyou

[GUB]

For pedanticness sake we better take it as" Two Letter Acronym" as well!