Acronyms

[Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen]

I must admit that I haven't had time to read all the contributions in  
the debate about acronyms, but I can't help making a small comment  
now. When students abbreviate terms they use often in their  
assignments, I usually say that abbreviations (including acronyms)  
are there for the benefit of the lazy writer, they are a nuisance to  
the readers. Why use acronyms at all and not simply the full name?  
And if we write in English, we should use the name in English - as  
with any other language name (cf. German, Dutch, Swedish, West  
Greenlandic, etc.).

I just finished a paper with lots of acronyms of sign languages!

- Elisabeth

Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 120
DK-2300 Copenhagen S.
Denmark
tel. #45 3532 8664
eep at hum.ku.dk



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