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* The All The Tropes wiki itself. Those new to the community might have to have [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMoA's]], [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]], and YKTTW explained to them.
** Similarly, ATT and TVT to refer to this wiki and [[The Other Tropes Wiki]], respectively.
** As of 2018, the admins here would prefer to make this a defied trope. After all, there are only so many TLAs<ref name=TLA>[[:Category:TLA|Three Letter Abbreviations]]</ref> to go around and thus some of them have multiple meanings here; we'd rather be informative than cute.
* [[Truth in Television]]: The United States armed forces do this, to the point where two members of the same branch (say an artilleryman and a tanker, both Army) can't understand each other. Much worse if it's members of two different branches.
* The Armed Services see this extensively. "Private Bob! Gimme a SITREP on the PMCS of that APC ASAP!".
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