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- From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.145005.18391@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:50:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com> <rdippold.711661229@cancun> <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tuu) writes:
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- >In article <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins) writes:
- >}Keep in mind that most computer "terms" are concatenated abbrev's.
- >}In this case, SYStem OPerator. Pronounce them accordingly.
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- > I really dislike this argument, but I used to use it myself....
- > I dislike it because it's NOT true. There are many many terms that
- >are abbreviations/acronyms that are *not* pronounced the way in which the
- >original words are. There are only two I can think of at the moment, one
- >of which is a computer term.
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- The original poster said "most" and all you can think of are two
- counterexamples. That still equates to "most.
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- Also, in the two examples, the only discrepency is with the vowels.
- one of the other acronym pronounciation rules overides all guidelines if
- the acronym is obviously contrived to be an english word.
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- That kills your BASIC example.
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- AMFAR also would be weird to take the vowel sound from AIDS (especially
- since that sound is produced by the 'AI' and not the 'A' alone.
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- Nothing wrong with "ahmfahr" there.
-
-
- ... next.
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