Comments on: Abbreviations You Should Purge http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/abbreviations-you-should-purge Proposal Expert, Laura Ricci, Muses on How She Reached Her 85% Hit Rate, Creating and Managing Dynamic Teams and Living Through Turnarounds Supporting Good People Doing Great Things Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Cole http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/abbreviations-you-should-purge/comment-page-1#comment-774 Chris Cole Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:30:47 +0000 http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/2006/05/21/abbreviations-you-should-purge/#comment-774 I guess in general I agree with avoiding abbreviations, however etc is a case of an abbreviation that is portable accross several languages (Spanish, Portugese, French). My guess is that it more ingrained than we think. I guess in general I agree with avoiding abbreviations, however etc is a case of an abbreviation that is portable accross several languages (Spanish, Portugese, French). My guess is that it more ingrained than we think.

]]> By: LRicci http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/abbreviations-you-should-purge/comment-page-1#comment-507 LRicci Tue, 23 May 2006 21:15:30 +0000 http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/2006/05/21/abbreviations-you-should-purge/#comment-507 Ah. An opportunity to enlighten... N.B. from the latin, Note Bene, meaning "Note Well," in the command tense. Similar to "Pay Attention to This" in American english. As for English stealing words, many languages do. Do you know how to say "tractor" in Latin America? It's "john deere." Ah. An opportunity to enlighten…
N.B. from the latin, Note Bene, meaning “Note Well,” in the command tense. Similar to “Pay Attention to This” in American english.

As for English stealing words, many languages do. Do you know how to say “tractor” in Latin America? It’s “john deere.”

]]> By: Clint Laskowski http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/abbreviations-you-should-purge/comment-page-1#comment-506 Clint Laskowski Tue, 23 May 2006 20:16:06 +0000 http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/2006/05/21/abbreviations-you-should-purge/#comment-506 n.b.? n.b.?

]]> By: Mike Starr http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/abbreviations-you-should-purge/comment-page-1#comment-503 Mike Starr Tue, 23 May 2006 14:22:18 +0000 http://www.1ricci.com/ideas/2006/05/21/abbreviations-you-should-purge/#comment-503 I can grudgingly give up e.g. and i.e. and I never embraced n.b. in the first place, but I can't see the point of giving up etc. It's too ingrained in our language... it may be technically Latin but we've carjacked it into the language. You'll have to pry etc. from my cold dead hands. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Davis Nicoll I can grudgingly give up e.g. and i.e. and I never embraced n.b. in the first place, but I can’t see the point of giving up etc. It’s too ingrained in our language… it may be technically Latin but we’ve carjacked it into the language. You’ll have to pry etc. from my cold dead hands.

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” — James Davis Nicoll

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