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Strife89:
--- Quote from: RowaN on June 18, 2008, 08:33:07 AM ---...what are "the kids" calling them these days? DAPs (with acronym tag)?
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Where I live, I always hear "MP3 player" or "iPod". It drives me nuts. (They're DAPs, people!)
RowaN:
--- Quote ---I suspect that "MP3" is more correct than "mp3", I don't think that there's anything to be gained by changing it.
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THE sentence WILL gain CORRECTNESS? See how annoying that is, when capitalisation is used incorrectly?
--- Quote ---Could you point out what you think is actually "wrong" about the current description that justifies saying we need to "get wording right?"
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I did - just the mp3 vs MP3 thing. As for the the other points, I'm not saying its wrong, I'm just asking if its right or if anyone has an opinion.
Llorean:
First, an acronym is when the letters form a word. If it's an acronym, then there is a word mp3 that can be used anyway. Note I did not say it isn't an abbreviation.
Second, could someone cite me a source that says it needs to be capitalized? In common parlance it's a noun used for a type of file. Even as it originated as an abbreviation for mpeg layer 3, these days it is merely a term more or less in its own right.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: RowaN on June 18, 2008, 01:02:19 PM ---THE sentence WILL gain CORRECTNESS? See how annoying that is, when capitalisation is used incorrectly?
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There is a huge difference if a sentence is capitalized wrongly and "natural" words in it and acronyms. While it can be harder to read it's only _one_ "word" in the sentence and not half of them like in your example.
Besides, there are also people coming here and asking for simply "mp4" meaning DAP which is much more wrong (as mpeg4 isn't a single codec like mp3 is -- oh, and shouldn't we call it "MPEG I Layer 3"?). "Codec" is also an artificial word coming from an acronym which doesn't get special capitalization but as it originally comes from "Encoder / Decoder" shouldn't it be "CoDec" or similar?
RowaN:
Thanks for your opinions guys, colourful as ever.
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