Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: David J. Fiander
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:46

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According to 70465.203@compuserve.com:
>Neither of your counter examples applies. They are both *acronyms*
>constructed from the initial letters of a phrase. In such cases, prounciation
>is pretty much determined by what it looks like.
>
>On the other hand, "sysop" is formed by combining *syllables*. It's in
>effect a contraction of the words "system operator". And the path may 
>have been that system got frequently shortened to "sys" and operator
>got shortened to "op". *Then* they got combined.

So I own a 2400bps Mah-Deem, then?

- David

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From: davidf@mks.com (David J. Fiander)
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Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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