Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2007-06-09-16:06:00 Mark Rabiner: > Yes but he uses in in context in an article. > He and other article writers will write they start out with: > > The Tri Elmar "TE" is very delicious. > Some think the 90 APO has more flavor "9A". Yah, and were I possessed to write about Tri-Elmaren, I expect I'd spell out the monicker; but then I'm not the sort to ask, "how R U?" or "drinks 2nite?" or whatever is even more compressed than that and flies from cellphone to cellphone these days. I got a Treo so I can easily type out actual words in text messages, dammit! I found it interesting, though, that I hadn't even noticed the "3 E" abbreviation, because my mind was already familiar with it and performed the substitution as it went in my eyeballs. "Nothing compares 2 U" - Prince, as sung by that earnest Irish gal.