Re: W. Hellenistic ATL (was: Hellenic languages in the WHAT (was Re: [relay] ...))

2008/10/7 Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:
> 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.
>
> ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
How about WHATL ?

René