Re: Use of ACRONYM

by Gerhard Schoening <g.sch(at)onlinehome.de>

Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:16:53 +0100
To:	"Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa(at)xs4all.nl>
Cc:	"John Brandt" <jbrandt04330(at)earthlink.net>, aware-techniques(at)hwg.org
References:	earthlink onlinehome ineke
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Hello Ineke,

On Friday, March 15, 2002 at 22:57 you wrote:

> Hallo John and Gerhard,

> I  only use <acronym title="???">CITE</acronym> when the abbreviation itself is an existing word as CITE.. 
> IMO CSS is not an existing word, so I will use <abbr title="Cascading StyleSheets">CSS</abbr> 

> Greetings
> Ineke van der Maat

Hmmmmmmm... that's something to think about ;-)

Well, my understanding may be different from yours... for
me, it's like that:

I'm using <.acronym title="Cascading
Style Sheets">CSS<./acronym>.

vs

John Doe, <.abbr title="Department">Dpt.<./abbr> <.abbr
title="number">No.<./abbr> One.

That is, I use abbr for the shortened form of a SINGLE word,
and acronym for a row of words where (mostly) only the first
character of the single word is taken from, to form a new
"word".

-- 
Best regards,

Gerhard

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