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From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon May 6 14:13:46 2002

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Chris wrote:

<snip>

> Its just a pet peeve... I'm not going to really care if you continue to
> type it MAC... but doing so shows a gross ignorance of the platform, and
> really undermines any and all arguments you may have to say for or
> against it. You can't really take someone seriously in discusssions of a
> system if they can't refer to it correctly, as it just shows that they

> I can't quote a source, but I can say that traditionally, in English, all
> caps refers to an anacronym. And since MAC has something it stands for,
> each and every time you refer to a Macintosh as "MAC" you are in fact
> refering to something other than the Macintosh computer.

I fear that your `anacronym' is an anacronism and what you really meant
was acronym - a synthesized word made from the first characters of the
words of a (group or organizational) name.

> have spent so little time dealing with the system, that they clearly
> can't base their statements on anything educated. It doesn't matter if it
> is the Mac, or if it is something else.

Hmmmm!
                                                 - don
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 14:13:46 BST