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Quotes About Abbreviation

The fuck?" he said. "The fuck?" said Jess. "The fuck what?" "It's an American abbreviation," said Martin. " «The fuck?» means «What the fuck?» In America, they're so busy that they don't have time to say the «what».
~ Nick Hornby
If an abbreviation with a full stop comes at the end of a sentence, you don't need to add another full stop: He really loves his asides, anecdotes, incidental stories, etc. Bless.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Ele chamou Gordon Moore e fundaram uma empresa que se tornou conhecida como Integrated Electronics Corporation, que eles inteligentemente abreviaram para Intel.
~ Walter Isaacson
B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!
~ Lenore Look
The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.
~ Lydia Davis
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated
~ Paul Valery