[DCRM-L] Full vs abbreviated language in notes

[Noble, Richard]

And now I *must* apologize for a *very* recent rant, since you all  prove to
be even wiser than I already thought.

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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>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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