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Re: NSGMLS ??

From	Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: NSGMLS ??
Date	2011-12-22 11:26 -0800
Message-ID	<221220111126153242%jimsgibson@gmail.com> (permalink)
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In article <9916f7phfrmc4bai4lcdbvqe8sroo1u2h9@4ax.com>, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:57 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
> 
> >
> >What evidence do you have that it's an acronym?  If the founding link (that 
> >first link in the Google search) doesn't mention it, how would any other
> >source 
> >be authoritative?
>  
> Because it contains another acronym SGML  Standard Generalised Markup
> Language

To be accurate and pedantic, NSGML is not an "acronym", it is a
"initialism".

> It is not pronounceable. That is another clue.

If it were pronounceable, and you pronounced it as a word rather than
saying its letters, then it would be an acronym.

-- 
Jim Gibson

Thread

NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-20 07:03 -0800
  Re: NSGMLS ?? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-20 10:09 -0500
    Re: NSGMLS ?? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-20 07:44 -0800
      Re: NSGMLS ?? Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2011-12-20 21:14 +0100
      Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-20 15:13 -0800
        Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-20 15:29 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-12-20 23:57 +0000
        Re: NSGMLS ?? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-21 07:01 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-21 11:10 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 02:38 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-22 07:55 -0500
              Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-22 10:38 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2011-12-22 11:26 -0800
              Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-22 11:47 -0800
                Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-04 16:56 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-22 21:13 -0500
        Re: NSGMLS ?? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-01-05 11:20 +0000

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