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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Is this in error?
Message-ID: <1330@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 09:41:12 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.1330
Posted: Wed Jan  9 09:41:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:05:48 EST
References: <780@pucc-k.UUCP> <15900005@smu.UUCP>
Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton
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Summary: 

>If you want to use it as an English word ("Have you RSVP'd yet?") then it
>... has become an acronym and we all know how much they mean.

One of my teachers claimed that people tend to forget
what an acronym stands for, and therefore
what the acronym really means.

He suggested that one should always say the real
phrase, rather than the acronym, to guard against
this error.  If you try this advice, you may be in for
some surprises!

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison