From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:32:28 +0000 (UTC), goldfarb@OCF.Berkeley.EDU   
   (David Goldfarb) wrote:   
      
   > In article <2ee8l49pq8u566q45o75uter50qi5i0dod@4ax.com>,   
   > Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   > >(GLB is a common abbreviation for "god-like being".   
   >   
   > It is?  I can't recall seeing it before.   
      
   Not as common as "YASID",  of course -- but three extra words would   
   inflate an already-long subject line.  I was unthinkingly assuming   
   that of course the OP would spell it out in the post itself & thereby   
   relieve any confusion.   
      
     No matter how common an abbreviation   
   is, one *always* spells it out on first reference.   
      
   Unless it's so common that people don't recognize the spelled-out form   
   . . . blanking on examples that don't expand into Latin.   "id est",   
   "et alia", "et cetera" -- I can't even spell "exemplum gratia".   And   
   the common Latin abbreviations are practically punctuation.   
      
   Joy Beeson   
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