I got it immediately, but I'm a computer programmer. You develop an automatic reflex for decoding words or acronyms that aren't in general use because they often have secondary meanings. Plus, variable names are often abbreviations for longer terms or phrases and made up of single syllables trained together to form a unique word/identifier. The military originated that sort of thing. Abbreviations like "ComSubLant" for "Commander, Submarines, Atlantic" or "ComPacFlt" for "Commander, Pacific, Fleet", etc. are as common as dirt.
