Re: W. Hellenistic ATL (was: Hellenic languages in the WHAT (was Re: [relay] ...))
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 14:45 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:06:14 -0400, Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> Can we please refer to the Western Hellenistic Alt. TL by some abbreviation
> other than WHAT?
> At least once in each post about it?
> And at least in the posts' and threads' title?
> Searching for WHAT turns up more than 5000 results (no surprise there!),
> most
> of them spurious (also no surprise!).
> I suggest W. Hellenistic ATL.
> But even W.H.A.T. might do, with the periods in place. Would it?
Indeed, while it is catchy, the acronym WHAT is a bad choice
because it is a stopword. Similar to the problem of finding
posts about Danny Wier's conlang Tech in the CONLANG archive.
A good name should not only be catchy, but also unique in the
sense that it hasn't been used much before, not even for
unrelated things.
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