- From: David Latapie <david@empyree.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:11:57 +0100
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:19:00 +0000, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > David Latapie wrote: > >> Until lexicalisation comes into play. Lexicalisation is the fact that a >> word becomes so used that it is not considered an abbreviation anymore >> - example include BARBARA from the alchemists and more recently, LASER. > > The traditional way of approaching this is not to mark it up at all. As > there's no issue with pronunciation (so long as it's written "laser" not > "LASER") and there's no excuse for general words not to be in UA > dictionaries that seems like a reasonable solution. We agree on this. I was just elaborating. -- </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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