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Subject:Re: e-mail ! ; the last word? I doubt it... From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Fri, 2 May 1997 10:00:57 -0700
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>Bev wrote:
>>And that's basically it. Email is becoming a word unto itself and not a
>>mere abbreviation of a longer term. Very similar to radar.
Wayne J. Douglass[SMTP:wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM] wrote:
>>Radar is, of course, an acronym rather than an abbreviation - and a whole
>'nother discussion altogether.<
By my definition, acronyms, initialisms, etc. are all types of
abbreviations. But as you said, that's another discussion.
Email could just as easily be an acronym, just like radar. In fact, I'm
declaring right now that it is. <g> Why not? You are taking beginning
portions of each word (in the case of mail, the whole word) and putting
them together to make a pronouncible (sp?) word. Email. Radar. No
difference.
;-)
Bev
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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