We, in IT, love to mouth off acronyms, abbreviations, without any regard of whether we are understood or not. Why does IT have a high propensity to abbreviate?

Is it because

• we like to be thought of as the smartest person in the room (of course, most times, we come out as a "incomprehensible alien")
• marketing types come up with these techno mumbo-jumbo and, we drink the cool-aid and faithfully mouth it like we invented them
• its our secret handshake
• its a necessary evil that we use to get business to get excited about a mundane topic, wrap a old product/service with a catchy acronym/abbreviation and presto! sales goes through the roof.
  

 Did I leave any other reason out...

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