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Re: NSGMLS ??

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:26:15 -0800, Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com>
wrote:

>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".

     Here is the first definition for initialism at
dictionary.reference.com:

"a name or term formed from the initial letters of a group of words
and pronounced as a separate word, as NATO for North Atlantic Treaty
organization; an acronym."

>> 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.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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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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