Re: When was the SPARC 20 introduced and discontinued?

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From: chocolatemalt
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:44

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In article <Xmwaf.49997$5e4.18786@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
 Logan Shaw <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Anyway, the point of all this is that I think "'s" as a plural in
> these cases does have a legitimate purpose, and it has been taught
> that way in the past as the standard and correct way to do it.
> Whether we still need to use "'s" for acronyms' plurals is a whole
> different question.  I may be that we have the means now to
> disambiguate situations like the aforementioned "1084Ss" easily
> enough with fonts (like putting "1048S" in italics or Courier) or
> in other ways, and maybe apostrophes for acronym plurals should
> be on the way out.
> 
> But if so, I don't think that for that to happen that we need to
> believe that the apostrophe was never correct.  It's OK for the
> rules of grammar and punctuation to change.  After all, language
> is constantly changing, and there was a day when written language
> didn't even have punctuation at all.  (Heck, as I understand it,
> the written form of Hebrew doesn't even have vowels.)

Excellent points.  I would also add that with our inundation of acronyms 
in modern English, many are losing their capitalization in common use 
and can't be pluralized in a workable manner without an apostrophe:

   I have two cpu's in this computer.

   I need a new cb radio... they got any cb's at that store?

This all reminds me of the arguments a few years back about how "ain't 
ain't a word!" until the dictionaries took it in.  Or, the old saws 
about avoiding split infinitives and not ending sentences in 
prepositions, both of which have proven to be inventions of old time 
grammarians trying to Latinize English.

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