Re: Stress marking (was: Re: CONLANG Digest -14 Oct 2000(maglangs plea!))
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 27, 2000, 10:31 |
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Am 10/25 20:51 Nik Taylor yscrifef:
> > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
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> > > I like the Spanish term TTT for WWW, that i saw on the Spanish Conlang
> > > list, IdeoLengua. la Tela Trans-Terrestre. (IIRC)
>
> TTT, definitely superior to the hideous, tongue-twisting, WWW. One of
> the few abbreviations that takes longer to say than what it stands for!
>
My flatmate discouraged me from calling it 'Sextuple-U', which makes
perfect sense to me. Usually I use the three-syllabled 'Worldwide Web'.
- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
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