Acronyms, abbreviations and symbols
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Leotard From The Eighties
Primo!
(No offense, of course ...)
I start to your hilarious blog ... and I am happy above all because, to my surprise, I can contribute something. As sustained corrective (or spelling, which is more chic ), I share your horror at the poor and common abbreviations. Indeed, kms. and sec are wrong, but wanted to point out something about it and km s are not abbreviations, they are symbols.
me explain. In the wonderful and interesting world of abbreviations, we distinguish between abbreviations, acronyms and symbols. And make this distinction because they have "behavior" different.
The acronym, as you know, respond to the initials of the abbreviated words and are always in uppercase (there is also the case of acronyms, but I will not go into that).
The abbreviations are more varied because it is simply made shorter one word can be in suspension, that is, when you omit the end of the word ( page. or p. to page ) or by contraction, while some of the letters omitted internal com in the case of Mr. and Ms. endpoint should always carry, and in respect to the plural, only in abbreviations indicates contraction, precisely because they retain the final Mr and Mrs
Symbols are another story. Are abbreviations that, somehow, have been agreed internationally and, therefore, there is only one possible way: for a mile, km , not plural as possible and without point, in the case of a second, s . If not known, you should check on an official list. In it are different abbreviations, as an abbreviation you can always do as you please (although there are certain conventions). In that sense, sec per second would be nice if there is a standard text, but, yes, you must take the final point.
As for the case of symbols, Daniel is absolutely right. Just note that if the names of a scientist / explorer / inventor is not the only case in which are capitalized. Liter has Double spelling (l or L ), but he prefers capitalized to avoid confusion with the i capital. Larger multiples: mega (M) giga (G), etc. Chemical elements: O , Na . And finally, the winds: N , NE , NNO, etc.
You see, one also knows things curious but useless (unless you do this, of course). The truth is that I think if it were not so hopelessly complicated (I've only mentioned some rules: the style manuals have chapters about more than fifty pages), we would not be as outrageous or kms secs. But then, if it were not I would have less work ...
Kisses and continue with your blog, you can enjoy much.
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