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RE: OLoCA
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'thee vulger and unprofeshunul sigwin-tork maleing liszt'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:21:30 +0100
- Subject: RE: OLoCA
- References: <9791e44f0807301222w5f23906erd2ad85a7ab532e81@mail.gmail.com> <008c01c8f28a$2a7a0eb0$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <g6qr62$53v$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Matthew Woehlke wrote on 30 July 2008 23:50:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Uriel Apeiron wrote on 30 July 2008 20:23:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> ...and the first example wikipedia
Citing wikipedia as an authoritative source: one sip!
*sip*
>> Embi, but yowtwit!
>
> I think you meant YOWTWYTT? (s/wrote/typed/)
I woz triying to emfasize thee fonetick nachure of manee of thee
ackrownims :)
cheers,
DaveK
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