Re: in collaboration with

Nick wrote:

Jitze wrote:
>
Unfortunately, Dutch is comparatively rich in these kind of
abbreviations (expressed as the intial letters of a compound
phrase) and they are quite commonly used and widely
understood, but there is no similar habit/tradition in
English. Beyond "i.e." and "e.g." I can't think of anything
comparable - and these two are derived from Latin phrases.

IWO, ISTM that you are saying we don't abbreviate common phrases in
English. IMHO you are only partly right, it depends on the written
English dialect in question, BICBW. HTH, HAND.

W.r.t abbreviations in English, it occurs to me that many of them are used
as professional jargon on in restricted domains of discourse, and will not,
c.p., be understood generally. Often there is no need for them to be
understood outside of a particualr subject area: where else but in a
mathematical argument would you need "wlog"?

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