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Common usage of abbreviations and such
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Posts: 165</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> I am proposing this as an ongoing place to log the many abreviations that can speed our work even as it befuddles newcomers. I propose that all who wish to make additions copy the previous text into their post so the last entry will contain everything and we can refer anyone w/ Q's here.                         77 = the 1977 Silmarillion pub and ed. by CRRT                         UT = unfinished tales                         HoME = History of Middle Earth [as a general series]                         I = Book of lost tales vol. 1                         II = Book of Lost Tales vol 2                         III -XII etc.                         Silm = Silmarillion in general, NOT the 77                         MT = Myth's Transformed chapter of X [and the collective ideas]                                                 ff = fanfiction                                         PNSilm = proposed new Silmarillion [a general abv. that can be used for any new                                                 proposal , adopted or not                                                 I am not really concerned that these particular abreviations be used , so if anyone has betters feel free to replace them. In general , however I suggest we give the "right" of abbreviating to whoever coins the abrv. first, uless someone can show that the abrv. in question will be too confusing. Lindil                         </p>
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