[BRLTTY] Fw: Contraction error: Usenet

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Whoops, it looks like I forgot to send this one to you at all...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
To: "Rusty Kelly" <RustyK at Freedomscientific.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:13
Subject: Contraction error: Usenet


> Hi Rusty,
>
> This isn't a word, and as far as that goes it's often written UseNet (with 
> the N capitalized). But if it's written with a small n then it's 
> miscontracted. IMHO it should not use the e-n sign.
>
> Yikes! To my very great astonishment I do have two examples of its use by 
> NLS. Both come from PC World. I have no examples of either (use computer 
> braille here) 8us5et0 or 8use,net04 In these examples the name of the file 
> is prepended to the example and a 6-dot translation is not performed:
>
> /data/Braille Books/PC World/January, 2006/PCWorld.brf:   ,USENET & O!R 
> COLLEC;NS ( NEWSGR\PS
> /data/Braille Books/PC World/January, 2006/PCWorld.brf: ,MO/ ,,ISP'S 
> 9CLUDE A3ESS 6A ,USENET
>
> -- 
>
> Lee Maschmeyer
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, Michigan, USA
>