[BRLTTY] Contraction error: AARP

Lee Maschmeyer lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu
Mon Sep 24 10:30:47 EDT 2007


AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons. It's pronounced as four 
separate letters.

I think I'd take these on a case-by-case basis. Remember, brltty has an 
excellent translator, quite probably the best in the industry. Only slight 
adjustments are needed imho.

As for not contracting words merely because they're spelled out, this would 
be highly dysfunctional. Chapter titles are often given in all caps, and in 
email words are sometimes written in all caps to indicate emphasis.

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
     --Fred Allen




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