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offtopic Acronyms (was offtopic: ASP)

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Jun 09, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: Gerardo E. Brandariz
To: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 1:33 AM
Subject: RE: offtopic: ASP

>
> MS usually stand for 'MicroSoft', but ... where do you find it? In what
context? It might > also mean 'ManuScript'.
>
> SW might mean 'SouthWest', 'SoftWare', 'ShareWare', or even 'Southern
Winds', an
> airline here in Argentina.
>
> A good place to search for acronyms is The Penn State University Libraries
Reference > (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/catsweb/tools/langlist.htm)
>
> Best of luck!
>
> Gerardo E. Brandariz

    Amazing,  Depending on context acronyms mean different things.
Unfortunately the same can be said of words.
Example:
  read
My assignment was to read the book so I read it.

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