Makes no sense!!
2007-09-15 00:05:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
to demonstrate the need for abbrev.
2007-09-15 05:06:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it's long so that they can abbreviate it. Interesting though...a lot of words that mean "to shorten" are quite long and/or big (as in million-dollar) vocabulary words, and I'm not sure that many of them have 'official' abbreviations. Examples: Truncated, abridged, curtail, diminish, retrench, condense, summarize, synopsize, etc. I think people just like coming up with complicated ways to say simple s***.
2016-05-20 00:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have actually shortened it but omitting 1 b in it. Abbreviation is the right word, isn't it? The term itself is spelled that way so it has its own sense the way it is.
Just wondering how this question got astrayed in Zoology section.
2007-09-15 04:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now that is a great question!!
2007-09-15 13:20:49 · answer #4 · answered by wildlifer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋