Re: Attn: Spanish speakers

En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:

>
> i alternate between the last two depending on
> register, preferring the no-point system. my personal
> favourite, altho rather obsolete, certainly in yUK (
> tho not so much in france ) is to superscript any
> letters after an ommission. so n_o for number, c_llr
> for councellor, abb_n for abbreviation &c
>
Indeed it's far from obsolete in France, since it's the normal way of
abbreviating words (just look at the notes of any student ;)))) ). Those
abbreviations never end with a dot. In the same way, acronyms usually never end
with a dot, unless they are put with a dot after each component, but that's
uncommon, except for rare acronyms. As for other abbreviations, putting a dot
or not is more a matter of the wim of the writer than a rule over whether the
abbreviation ends with the last letters of the original word. Usually the dot
is put after short abbreviations (one, two or three letters), but not after
long ones. It's no solid rule though.

Christophe.

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