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By Laurence Brown
Many linguists insist that our brains are best equipped to learn a second language during our childhood years. Though there is some disagreement over both the extent of this “critical” period and the exact age range it encompasses, there is one thing that cannot be denied: learning a new language—while undeniably challenging in our adult years—is a deeply rewarding and fruit-bearing achievement.
Quite often, this is never truer than when we embark on a new work setting, where one language component in particular can seem so complex that it might almost be considered an entire language by itself. I am talking about acronyms. Try, if you will, to extract meaning from the following acronym: LGTLAIANWS.
It’s easy, right? It stands for “Laurence’s Guide to Learning Acronyms in a New Work Setting.” I knew this, of course, because I coined the acronym (and may or may not have copyrighted it). But for everyone else, it probably resembled little more than an utterly unpronounceable word, or, at best, something my Welsh compatriots in the United Kingdom might write.
The nature of the work we do at Briljent—especially as it pertains to health care contracts—means that acronyms are plentifully used in key discussions. For the uninitiated, hearing such acronyms can, at first, seem as puzzling as my example above—reason enough, methinks, to view your own acquisition as an exciting challenge rather than an insurmountable obstacle.
While learning acronyms might not present quite the same level of glamour as the acquisition of, say, French or Spanish, the rules for learning them might not be so dissimilar. To simplify matters, I have broken down Acronym Language Acquisition (or should that be ALA?) into three manageable steps:
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