Re: I have an opinion!

Andrew Chaney wrote:

>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.>

Well, some are annoying, some aren't; many-- like "B2B" (not a rap album)--
are simply trendy and will be gone in 6 months.  And even in days of yore,
real letters contained things like w/, w/o, yrs. and XXXX.

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