- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:48:59 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 02:25 PM 2/5/2001 , Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo wrote: >Both first (WWW and SNCF) they are acronyms They're initialisms. >I don't dominate English, like it is evident, but I can assure that in >Spanish the difference between an abbreviation and an acronym is clear and >its functions and senses are not interchangeable for what is important that >these two elements stay. The difference is clear in ENGLISH, as well, but the HTML 4.01 specification does not use either the English definition or the Spanish definition. It make up its own definition, which are: 1. ABBR - any abbreviated form of a word or words 2. ACRONYM - any initialism (a subset of "abbreviated forms") That is the HTML 4.01 definition and natural language definitions are irrelevant. --Kynn Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Customer Management/Team Edapta Reef North America Tel +1 909-674-5225 ___________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ___________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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