Re: Eak!! WHAT's in a name?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 10:10 |
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On 10/23/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just realized - and I should have noticed this long before - that
> Ελληνικό Άνευ Κλίσι (Ellènikó Áneu Klísi - Greek without inflexions) is
> *ungrammatical*.
>
> At the very least the name
> should be Ελληνικό το Άνευ Κλίσι (Ellènikó to Áneu Klísi)
>
> But I'm sure JP would have called it το άνευ κλίσι Ελληνικό (to áneu
> klísi Ellènikó). So I guess the abbreviation should really be ΤΑΚΕ (TAKE).
In this non-Hellenist's eyes, articles can be safely omitted from
acronyms and initialisms. In fact, I'd argue that they not only can
but should be omitted (along with adpositions and any other particles
that can be glarked from context), unless they have a particularly
euphonic effect in a specific case.
Therefore, the abbreviation "EAK" has my official permission to remain
unmolested, though "TAKE" does indeed have a certain charm.
I don't know how your website source is organized, but I fear that
doing a search & replace from EAK to TAKE may be easier than doing a
search and replace from TAKE to something else.
Paul
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