[DCRM-L] Full vs abbreviated language in notes

[Lenore Rouse]

  I'm in favor of full sentences too (subject, verb, object) rather than 
sentence fragments. While being as concise as possible we should still 
be able to communicate in an understandable way.

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Lenore M. Rouse
Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections
The Catholic University of America
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On 10/27/2011 6:48 PM, Deborah J. Leslie wrote:
> 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 interesting.
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> 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 words, but sentences as well.
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> How about the rest of you? What style do you use when formulating notes?
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