Re: Attn: Spanish speakers

On Aug/29/2002, bnathyuw wrote:

> is it standard in spanish to put a point after an
> abbreviation even if it ends in the full word's final
> vowel ?
        Yes, always. And a point after each letter in acronyms, like
"O.T.A.N." ("NATO"), though I don't know if this is the same in other
natlangs :-m And when the acronym refers to something plural, you repeat
the letter: E.E.U.U. ("Estados Unidos", "United States").

        Anyway, there are a lot of people that don't do all this
"pointing" nowadays. In fact, I don't use it at all usually, at least in
electronic media :-)

--
        Roberto Suarez Soto

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