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Article #171Re: Goodbye all.
From: Iolo Davidson
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <49qhnm$mso@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
kkelly1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu "Kevin Kelly" writes:
> But feel free to continue in a defense of Iolo's
> stupidity that imo means anything other than in my opinion.
In Keegan's sentence, "then again, hypocrisy is an improvement
for you, imo" it is entirely correct for me to understand that he
was calling me "Imo", which is not much of a distortion of my
actual name.
If Keegan had meant an acronym, he should have distinguished it
by capitalising all the letters. He normally fails to capitalise
the initial letter of names, so lack of an initial capital was
consistent with it being a name. Taken as a name, he has failed
to capitalise one letter; taken as an acronym, he would have
failed to have capitalised three letters. Therefore, the name
interpretation is correct, as it has the fewest errors.
--
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