RE: Acronyms

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 08:42:51 EDT

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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jonathan Rosenne wrote:

> What about ISO - The International Organization for Standardization? It is common practice sometimes to keep the acronyms although they are from another language.

Or in this case from no language: ISO is not the acronym of the full
name in any language.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
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de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"

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