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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m with you, Deborah; while still trying to keep the notes brief, I’m beginning to feel that the telegraphic style is needlessly cryptic.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Let’s see, in traditional note style the previous sentence might read:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Telegraphic note style needlessly cryptic. Cf. Leslie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Twisted cataloger humor,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah J. Leslie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Full vs abbreviated language in notes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">I apparently promised the DCRM(MS) group to look up some things and talk to some DCRM editors about the style of language in the note field, but figure a discussion in a wider forum would be more
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The more time goes on, the readier I am to use full, normal sentences in notes, instead of the traditional abbreviated sentence structure that grew out of the space-saving milieu of the card.
Not that I advocate verbosity or chattiness, but sentences with verbs and articles are so much easier to read and understand than those without. One also can't help but think that the RDA no-abbreviation approach will spread to the idea of not just abbreviating
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">How about the rest of you? What style do you use when formulating notes?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol St., S.E. | Washington, D.C. 20003<br>
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#0070C0">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a></span>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0070C0">| 202.675-0369 | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/">
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