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Do you think the abbreviation acceptable?

 
 
Reply Sat 16 May, 2009 07:12 am
Native English speakers, please express your opinion or cite authoritative sources to support your opinion about the abbreviation of the word memoir.
The abbreviation of memoir is mem.
Do you think the abbreviation acceptabhle?
 
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Reply Sat 16 May, 2009 07:27 am
No. There is no need to abbreviate the word memoir.
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Reply Sat 16 May, 2009 07:39 am
oristarA wrote:

Native English speakers, please express your opinion
or cite authoritative sources to support your opinion
about the abbreviation of the word memoir.
The abbreviation of memoir is mem.
Do you think the abbreviation acceptabhle?

NO good.
That is not recognizable.

It is a mistake to speak or to write in abbreviations,
of chopping off part of a word; it looks unacceptably bad.
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Reply Tue 19 May, 2009 02:09 pm
Abbreviations are used to save time when a word has to be repeated many times. As has been mentioned, this is normally not needed, especially with a word such as memoir.

I suppose that it`s not beyond the realm of possibility that this or any word could be shortened precisely because it is being used a lot. In that case, the abbreviation could be whatever was mutually understandable to the parties concerned.
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Reply Tue 19 May, 2009 02:49 pm
Still, manuscript is often abbreviated. Doesn't make any more sense than abbreviating memoir.
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Reply Tue 19 May, 2009 03:14 pm
Even okay is abbreviated, Roger. Wink
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