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R: Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

  • From: "fmeschini@t..." <fmeschini@t...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:23:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00)

R: Re:  Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
>The XML specification, http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ 
starts with,
>Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes 
...
>So the spec says, it's an abbreviation ...

Probably because 
'acronymied' is a little bit of a cacophony, and to write 'abbreviated 
through the acronym' was too complex of a sentence.

Technically XML is 
an acronym, as GNU, SQL, FAT, BBC or TARDIS are. Probably we should 
discuss whehter an 'acronym' is a subtype of the more general 
'abbreviation' type which is at the same time disjointed from the 
'contraction' subtype (e.g. Dr. for Doctor).

Fede


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