Re: Use of acronyms (was RE: purl.net/net/cp)

On the plus side, Philippe, you may safely take the explosion of  
English-based acronyms as a sure indicator of the growing number of  
monoglot English speaker so scared that their language is becoming  
international (not just theirs to use, but everybody's, especially in  
the case of those of them who still harbour a genuine horror of  
polyglots, which we must respect as real fear to them), that they  
feel a genuine need to club together behind acronyms and the like,  
which is silly in the extreme, but please accept it may be better for  
your sanity to see that as being really more their problem than  
yours, as they clearly must spend more time on computers than is  
healthy for any brain.:-)

On the minus side, even I find your msgs too long and too numerous to  
read in their entirety, so condensing your views to a few lines  
before sending, if you are able do so, might help other readers and  
probably reduce the current level of resistance to the thoughts you  
have to offer.

Cordialement,
mg

On 23 Oct 2007, at 13:16,scríobh  [email protected]:

> ...
> I'm a native English speaker in my 50s and I *still* have to do this
> regularly -- both for English words and acronyms. Just learned  
> "barista"
> recently, for example (surprising, given my love of good coffee!).  
> Online
> dictionaries and acronym finders are one of the top hits on my browser
> favorites list.
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