- From: Ben Caldwell <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:13:03 -0500
- To: Christophe Strobbe <Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- CC: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Thanks Christophe. One of the definitions from your 22 September post combined with what we've got now yields the following: acronym: abbreviation made from the initial letters or parts of a name or phrase that contains several words I think this might address both issue 1175 and the concerns you've described. Thoughts? -Ben Christophe Strobbe wrote: > > > As I mentioned in the last editors' survey > (http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/20060706editorz/results#x1175), the > definition of acronym proposed in comment LC-1175 does not work: it > covers abbreviations that are not acronyms (Mr in English, Me in French, > Dr in English and Dutch, ...). For definitions of acronym, abbreviation > and initialism, see the list I sent on 22 September 2005 at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JulSep/att-0851/AbbreviationAcronym.html > (and some comments in > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JulSep/0851.html). > If you think we need a more precise definition of acronym, you can > assign me an action item. > > Regards, > > Christophe > -- Ben Caldwell | <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu> Trace Research and Development Center <http://trace.wisc.edu>
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