Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site smu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!smu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@smu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Is this in error? Message-ID: <15900005@smu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 16:10:00 EST Article-I.D.: smu.15900005 Posted: Sat Jan 5 16:10:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 01:47:01 EST References: <780@pucc-k.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:pucc-k:-78000:smu:15900005:000:351 Nf-From: smu!mcdonald Jan 5 15:10:00 1985 Depends. If you want to treat it as a real abbreviation, then yes, it is superfluous. If you want to use it as an English word ("Have you RSVP'd yet?") then it isn't. I think this has become an acronym and we all know how much they mean. If you want to be formally correct, go to the library and look in Emily Post. Or Miss Manners. McD