APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 17:11:53 2002

Actually, I don't think there's an English convention about acronymns. There
may be some truth in general usage with respect to that, however. I'll look
around. I'm in the habit of capitalizing acronymns myself, among other
reasons, because people search the web and find our posts, and our email
addresses, though I'd prefer they not be able to do that, and its normal that
they're searching for some acrynymn or other, so I want to make 'em easy to
find. Once I'm convinced one way or the other, I'll post accordingly.

Your remarks about gross ignorance of the platform may be entirely correct,
since I make no claim to know squat about the Mac. I've avoided 'em because
they don't work like "what I grew up with" ...

After seeing how "slick" (ly) they go together, however, from the hardware
standpoint, I'm giving 'em another look.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech_at_mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor


> >... and just exactly where does one find a precise reference to this
> >convention?
>
> 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.
>
> And typing it as MacIntosh is just simply wrong. Look at any literature
> by Apple, you will never see it with a capitol I. I think that is a throw
> off from people that are typing it via the name of the fruit, which is
> ALSO wrong, since the name of the fruit is McIntosh (no a).
>
> 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
> 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.
Received on Mon May 06 2002 - 17:11:53 BST