6 May
2002
6 May
'02
7:13 a.m.
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Chris wrote:
<snip>
Its just a pet peeve... I'm not going to really
care if you continue to
type it MAC... but doing so shows a gross ignorance of the platform, and
really undermines any and all arguments you may have to say for or
against it. You can't really take someone seriously in discusssions of a
system if they can't refer to it correctly, as it just shows that they
I can't quote a source, but I can say that
traditionally, in English, all
caps refers to an anacronym. And since MAC has something it stands for,
each and every time you refer to a Macintosh as "MAC" you are in fact
refering to something other than the Macintosh computer.
I fear that your `anacronym' is an anacronism and what you really meant
was acronym - a synthesized word made from the first characters of the
words of a (group or organizational) name.
have spent so little time dealing with the system,
that they clearly
can't base their statements on anything educated. It doesn't matter if it
is the Mac, or if it is something else.
Hmmmm!
- don