Re: Eak!! WHAT's in a name?

Paul Bennett wrote:
> 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),
Yes, there's the rub. The A in EAK is the initial letter of a
preposition. If I'd simply abbreviated the ungrammatical Ελληνικό Άνευ
Κλίσι as EK, then the inclusion of the article would not have mattered.
But if I include Άνευ (without) it seemed unreasonable to treat the
article differently. In any case, being a perfectionist (a curse when I
used to program), I'm sure that a Josephos Peanou in WHAT would have
used the form το άνευ κλίσι Ελληνικό (to áneu klísi Ellènikó), so any EK
or ETAK would really be a fudge.

[snip]
> Therefore, the abbreviation "EAK" has my official permission to remain
> unmolested, though "TAKE" does indeed have a certain charm.
I does, doesn't it?
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Henrik Theiling wrote:
[snip]
 > TAKE is a tempting acronym, of course.  I'd keep the old acronym on
 > the page somewhere, however, for Google to still find it.

I have kept it on the Introductory Page (index.html), as well as the new
one.

 > **Henrik
 >
 > PS: 'Greek Inflections Vanished Easily' (GIVE).

   :-D

I like it. If you don't mind, I think I'll work that in somewhere on the
introductory page, acknowledge the source, of course.

Right then - TAKE it is.

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