[Ads-l] Pluralizing acronyms

[GEOFFREY NUNBERG]

Tom Wasow makes a point of calling them “RsBI."

Geoff

> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Pluralizing acronyms
> Date: January 6, 2018 at 6:44:41 AM PST
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> Speaking of technical vocabulary, while “elf” usually pluralizes to “elves”, the acronym ELF as a term of art has a regular plural, ELFs rather than ELVES. For example (and no, I don’t know WTF this is all about, or even what *non*-extreme lossiness might involve):
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> https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/114

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