On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:21:37 +0100, Noah Slater <nslater@gmail.com> wrote: > The differences are very distinct. Semantically? Really? > Acronyms, initialisms. and abbreviations all need to be spoken > differently. Isn't that up to Aural CSS and not up to the markup? > All acronyms are abbreviations. Let's just settle for <short> and be done with it, eh? It doesn't matter what the definition of abbreviation, acronym or initialism is as long as they all fit into the same element, serving the same purpose: giving the author a mechanism for expanding a word into a more descriptive form. > People keep forgetting initialisms. There is an important difference. There is a difference, but is it really that important? Especially considering how little it is used? -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- http://virtuelvis.com/quark/ «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»Received on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:17:31 GMT
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