- From: <75819671@it.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:31:17 +0200
- To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no>
- cc: Ryan Fischer <fischer@email.unc.edu>, www-html@w3.org
"Note that abbreviations and acronyms often have idiosyncratic pronunciations. For example, while "IRS" and "BBC" are typically pronounced letter by letter, "NATO" and "UNESCO" are pronounced phonetically. Still other abbreviated forms (e.g., "URI" and "SQL") are spelled out by some people and pronounced as words by other people. When necessary, authors should use style sheets to specify the pronunciation of an abbreviated form." And you should also consider that the same acronym can be pronunceable in a language but not in another. For example, ICQ is a typical acronym that was intended to be prounanced in a way that sounds as meaningful (I seek you) BUT only in English. In Italian you prounance it by spelling the single characters, that is EE-CHEE-KYU. We should be very careful to define terms and standards for an International environment like Internet assuming that what is valid in a country (usually USA) should be also valid in others. Dr. Dario de Judicibus - IBM Global Services ICM EMEA South Region Deployment Support Leader EMEA Knowledge Management Consulting Group Tel: +39-06-596-62531 --- Fax: +39-06-596-65432 WORK (e-mail) 75819671@it.ibm.com (pages) http://w3.smns.italy.ibm.com/ HOME (e-mail) ddj@mclink.it (pages) http://www.geocities.com/~dejudicibus/ (icq) 25257587 PHOTO GALLERY http://www.geocities.com/~dejudicibus/gallery/
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