Dear Margaret,
I have to say that to me it looks rather strange having the ER-sign. If
someone didn't know the word or how it is pronounced then I don't think they
would necessarily arrive at the correct answer.
Best wishes,
Roger.
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Hello Roger
Many thanks for your thoughts.
I totally understand what you mean.
What are your views about the ER in the 2nd example?
Whilst it is interesting to be contracting websites, it does sometimes open
cans of worms..
Thanks
Margaret
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Subject: [ueb-ed] Re: Use of contractions in websites
Dear Margaret,
As you invited "thoughts" I offer a few.
If you had a website: doghouse, that would be translated not using the
GH-sign. Again, multimedia would be translated not using dot-5 T. Unless
there is some kind of exception, then I would rather theatreroyal without
the ER-sign.
Best wishes,
Roger Firman.
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Subject: [ueb-ed] Use of contractions in websites
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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