[DCRM-L] Latin abbreviations and RDA

[Whittaker, Beth M]

But if the audience for the cataloging code is understood to be able to comprehend the abbreviation, and the audience for the catalog record is not, does it still constitute irony?

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On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:23 AM, "Elizabeth O'Keefe" <EOKEEFE at themorgan.org> wrote:

> The beast flesh is creeping back ... . Time to burn all the animal (I
> mean Latin) out of it.
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>>>> "Deborah J. Leslie" <DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu> 4/27/2012 12:00 PM >>>
> Friday chuckle:
> 
> I don't want to bother the larger cataloging community with this, but
> working my way through RDA, I've noticed a delicious irony in RDA text
> vis-à-vis its attitude about Latin abbreviations in the cataloging
> record.
> 
> "The term work refers to a distinct intellectual or artistic creation
> (i.e., the intellectual or artistic content)."
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