X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:55:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: OLoCA Message-ID: <20080730235554.GA18574@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <9791e44f0807301222w5f23906erd2ad85a7ab532e81 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <008c01c8f28a$2a7a0eb0$9601a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:33:11PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: >> Uriel Apeiron wrote on 30 July 2008 20:23: >>>I was poking around the Cygwin site and noticed the 'acronym' section. >>>The section should be called 'abbreviations'. Acronyms are a subset of >>>abbreviations that a person can say like a word, like squares are a >>>subset of rectangles. All acronyms are abbreviations but not vice >>>versa. CIA is an abbreviation, NASA is an acronym. > >"There is no universal agreement on the precise definition of the >various terms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Nomenclature) >... [acronym] is widely used to describe any abbreviation formed from >initial letters". > >Bonus terminology: those who restrict "acronym" as you do can refer to >the non-acronym abbreviations such as CIA as "initialisms" (as distinct >from other sorts of abbrev.) > >Also, beginning a conversation by making bald statements of the "You're >Doing It Wrong" form might get one branded as rude. Which you might or >might not care about. Just something to consider. Thank you. I was going to make this point but, IMO, you made it more clearly than any wording I could come up with. Btw, I think we need an acronym for someone who begins conversations by making bald statements. BCBMBS? Also, FWIW, the dictionary.com definition of acronym seems to match what we do on the OLOCA perfectly. Thanks, Mark. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/