Re: I have an opinion!

On Monday, April 2, 2001, at 03:57 , Padraic Brown wrote:

Whoops, accidently sent this to Padraic instead of the list.

> ... You may well cry foul, since most
> of the words in my list are _commonly accepted_ grammatical shortcuts;
> but you _did_ write "e-mail", which is precisely the sort of
> condensation you are so vociferously complaining about!
Speaking up momentarily in David's defense, I don't think email (or e-mail)
really qualifies as an abbreviation anymore.  I think has become a word in
and of itself.

Anyhow, I fully endorse, support, and use such condensations.  CompSci,
CogSci, Conlang, Auxlang, SciFi, ME, CODE, EE, ASME, Speech Path, PE,
Taxi, CD, HTTP, et al., etc. and so on.


Andy

adchaney@louisiana.edu
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~adc7593/

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