"Bold Language"

Dan Goodman dsgood at IPHOUSE.COM
Sun May 16 21:24:02 UTC 2010


Mark Mandel wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
>

> No.   I'm saying they have a house style.  From their point of view,
> "green beans" is incorrect.   Just as "IBM" is incorrect, and should be
> "I.B.M."
>
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> Not according to IBM. As seen on http://www.ibm.com/ibm/us/en/ :
>
Yes, but the New York Times knows better/best.
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