Greetings
We've had a few websites recently which have caused us question.
I know that we don't use shortforms in websites for obvious reasons and, thus,
we sometimes use contractions which look very "wrong" as a result. (For
example, we would use the ER sign in Loveletters.org)
When we have a series of words making up a website, do we ignore the way the
words would or would not be contracted outwith the web scenario - if typing the
website would not be hindered by "bad" contracting - or do we respect the sorts
of rules we would normally use in making contraction decisions?
A couple of recent examples:
Theatreroyal.org
(Duxbury is translating this using the ER contraction. Whilst it looks really
wrong, it actually wouldn't get in the way of someone using this version as a
reference for finding the site on the web.)
Note: UEB Rulebook 10.12.3 shows the example of c:\brailledocuments\letters.txt
with the ED uncontracted and looks correct.
Childbereavement.org
(You would - of course - not use the BE contraction, but could you use the ER
contraction in "bereavement" in this instance?)
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance
Margaret
(Bradshaw)
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