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Re: The Ability of Abbreviation

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 21:31
Am 11.12.01, Cheng Zhong Su yscrifef:

> As English words are too long,
Wl, al u hv 2 do is spl ym c/ fwr ltrz. C? Ds ys mk it ezr 4 ye? Prps frm now on, we shd al uz ys ezr splN 4 ye. OK?
> sometimes we simplify > them by abbreviation. We have said four hundred > ‘phonetic types’ still have some room to reduce words' > size, what will happen with 26 letters? In fact, some > mistakes are already there: > For instance what’s a CD? The answer could be various:
Yt is y we hv cntxt. P -- Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.

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