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Author: Dee
Date: 1999-07-14 04:29
Mark Charette wrote:
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You are technically correct; some of the initals can be considered acronyms, however, sicne they're pronouncable (TAANSTAFL is pronounced the way it looks). Current usage, though not correct, would be to call these acronyms. Since English is our first language, we tend not to be so precise!
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Absolutely true and sometimes I think that of the native speakers of English that we Americans tend to be less precise than others.
When I talk to my colleagues from Germany, I take extra care to be precise in my use of English since they will have learned the formal version of the language. Even though several of them have spent extended periods of time in the US, it is still easy for them to get confused when the speaker is careless.
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1999-07-13 02:42 |
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1999-07-13 03:53 |
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1999-07-13 14:40 |
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1999-07-13 16:52 |
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1999-07-13 18:17 |
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1999-07-13 18:22 |
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Dee |
1999-07-13 18:36 |
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1999-07-13 19:57 |
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1999-07-13 20:49 |
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1999-07-14 02:54 |
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1999-07-14 03:11 |
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Mark Charette |
1999-07-14 03:40 |
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Dee |
1999-07-14 04:29 |
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1999-07-15 15:44 |
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1999-07-16 17:02 |
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1999-07-18 02:59 |
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1999-07-21 04:01 |
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1999-08-17 02:23 |
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