- From: David Latapie <david@empyree.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:40:54 +0100
Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:20:50 +0000, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > David Latapie wrote: > >> The rationale was that the difference between <abbr> and <acronym> is >> presentational. > > Hmm. Maybe it could be described as presentational, I'm not sure. I > thought the rationale was authors don't understand what acronyms are > because Miriam-Webster's definition is so misleading. <duck/> > >> Consequently, what about a microformat? > > Hmm. > > <span class="ex-acronym">CERN</span> > <abbr title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" > class="initialism">FBI</abbr> > <abbr title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration" > class="acronym">NASA</abbr> > <abbr title="Lieutenant" class="contraction">Leut.</abbr> > > Any others? Why do you use both <span class="ex-acronym"> and <abbr class="acronym">? The way I see it Abbreviation Hyperonym (superset) for initialisms and acronyms Acronym Abbreviation that you can pronounce as a word (NASA) Initialism Abbreviation that you can spell letter-by-letter (FBI) Some others consider "abbreviation" is not a superset, but what you call "contraction". I couls very be both (superset plus subset), this happens often. There is also the term "alphabetism". The only thing for sure is that there is a strong disagreement on the terminology. -- </david_latapie> U+0F00 http://blog.empyree.org/en (English) http://blog.empyree.org/fr (Fran?ais) http://blog.empyree.org/sl (Slovensko)
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