atw: Re: US/Aus English

From: Peter G Martin <peter.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jill Nicholson <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:35:11 +1000

Jill Nicholson:
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:00:23 +1000,  you wrote:
> It's the planes that are in the 'air momentarily' that
> get me worried. Americans use abbreviations in quite
> formal documents - isn't, doesn't etc. I hope we don't!

Oh Jill. I don't see why not.  If it works for you in speech and an email, 
it's going to work in a document, too.  

Written language was devised as a means of recording 
spoken language, after all, and formal doesn't have to mean
stuffy.

--Peter M

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