abreevs

[Paul Johnston]

Dear Joel,
With hedges, yes.  With words,. not really, although you can have front-clippings (examination > exam) or back-clippings (pizza > za).  You can even have clippings that involve suffixation too (British breakfast > brekkie).

Paul Johnston
On Dec 11, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 12/10/2010 01:53 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> At 1:34 PM -0500 12/10/10, Paul Johnston wrote:
>>> Dear Tom,
>>> The technical term for these is  "clippings."
>>
>> ..or *a* technical term.  Another is "truncation(s)".  I use
>> "clipping" and "truncation" interchangeably, and AFAIK others do as
>> well.
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> And aren't clippings what's cut off, not what remains?
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> Joel
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>> LH
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>>> Paul Johnston
>>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>>> What's a "comp" and a "perp?" I'd call them "abbreevs"
>>>> (abbreviations). I think we should prep ourselves for receiving
>>>> lots of abbreevs in comps, what with texting and all. A ref listing
>>>> would be fab.
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>>>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>>>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>>>>> As a former Director of Freshman English at Duke, I'd have
>>>>> suggested that Barbara rethink her judgment. The interpretation of
>>>>> the passage is clear, and if indeed the putatively unusual
>>>>> reference causes a momentary "shock" for some readers, the change
>>>>> of pace is stylistically refreshing--and functional, in TBat it
>>>>> draws special attention to the content: the crimes (if that is
>>>>> what they are) of the perp.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can of course argue that the editorial history of the passage
>>>>> indicates that the author did not intend the stylistically effect
>>>>> that I assert the passage has. But that is irrelevant to how the
>>>>> reader would be affected. The reader knows nothing about the
>>>>> history of the passage. Moreover, one can just as well argue that
>>>>> the opposite is true, ie., the author felt the changes actually
>>>>> improved the sentences.
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>>>>> Barbara wrote:
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>>>>> As a some-time composition instructor, even with a fuller context, I
>>>>> would have marked this example as a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Barbara
>>>>>
>>>>> Barbara Need
>>>>> Ithaca
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