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Posted by John Boyd on 07:25:36 08/08/13
In Reply to: Re: DRTO posted by Steven Tennis
It's not curious at all. English has a lot of redundacy, and I expect that many people did not even notice the misspellings and lack of full name. The meaning was clear and we didn't have to even slow down to decipher it.
Unfamiliar abbreviatons are another matter entirely. Unless the reader is so familiar with it that they consider it a normal word, it will slow down or even stop the reading process. It creates a problem.
If its an unfamiliar abbreviation, they may have to stop to contemplate it. In the case of your DRTO abbreviation, I resorted to Google (this is also usually faster than puzzling out banding codes).
In short, one is an impediment to understanding, the other is usually not.
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