Re: Conlangs in RPGs...
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 20, 2001, 11:24 |
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> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:48:07 -0600
> From: Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
> On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 05:27 PM, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > frex
> AFAIK, it's an abbr. of For EXample
Technically, it's not an abbreviation, it's a contraction.
Which I just note to get an excuse to tell about the Danish
equivalent. The full phrase is "for eksempel", which used to be
abbreviated as "f.eks." --- quite cumbersome.
So some 15-20 years ago the official Language Council, who edit the
Orthographic Dictionary, decided to invent the 'letter symbol' fx ---
which doesn't take an abbreviation mark (period) since it isn't an
abbreviation or a contraction. "Eksempel" isn't spelt with an x, you
see.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)