Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!robison 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 Lines: 14 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