Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Mac User and Programmer [extended OT rant]
From: Andrew Schroter <schroter@optonline.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:32:23 -0400
References: <3.0.2.32.20020616133351.01395d74@roanoke.infi.net> <3.0.2.32.20020616121934.0136da34@roanoke.infi.net> <B932125D.1F954%mak@teleport.com> <3.0.2.32.20020616133351.01395d74@roanoke.infi.net> <3.0.2.32.20020616205610.013fdb20@roanoke.infi.net>

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infi.net>
> Ah!  Thank you.  I, however, am not a "technogeek" but am a human being,
> and come from a universe where acronyms are a rare thing.  And, as I own
my
> own law practice, my refusal to accept acronyms will continue, no matter
> the penetration you Byzantine Bureaucrats make.
>
> Convenience has nothing to do with it.  Clarity is everything.  Spell
EVERY
> word out and avoid unconventional spelling.  The modern academic footnote
> style is an enemy to clarity, so I refuse to use it:  see the epexigetical
> footnotes and the like in my two books for examples.

Epexigetical?  for shame, using a word as obscure as that is.  Its just as
bad as using an acronym.
:)

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