Avoiding Distinctions With Abbreviations |
June 17th, 2013 |
| ling |
In casual English I can talk about "veg advocacy", "being trans", or
"Swarthmore alums". These abbreviations are helpful where more formal
English would require a distinction I might not want to make:
vegetarian/vegan, transsexual/transgendered, alumnus/alumna.
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