On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:50 AM, François Lacombe <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Could someone precise me why abbreviations should always be avoided in
>> tagging please ?
>>
>
> This is already explained at length in the wiki, but chiefly because it
> disambiguates things a lot.  Data consumers can create abbreviations from
> full words, but expanding abbreviations accurately in an automated fashion
> is about as hard as writing a program that can pass a Turing test.
>
> Indeed.  This was driven home for me when my GPS announced "You have
arrived at your destination, the Cathedral of Street Paul."
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