How to use full stops with initials?
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death, (originally I was just going to use DMD for discipline, maturity and death- however it is a sexual innuendo) would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD. Or D.M.RD without the final full stop and also should the r be capitalised? Thank you :)
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death, (originally I was just going to use DMD for discipline, maturity and death- however it is a sexual innuendo) would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD. Or D.M.RD without the final full stop and also should the r be capitalised? Thank you :)
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Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
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Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
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If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death, (originally I was just going to use DMD for discipline, maturity and death- however it is a sexual innuendo) would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD. Or D.M.RD without the final full stop and also should the r be capitalised? Thank you :)
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death, (originally I was just going to use DMD for discipline, maturity and death- however it is a sexual innuendo) would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD. Or D.M.RD without the final full stop and also should the r be capitalised? Thank you :)
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Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
2
Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
1
If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
4 hours ago
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Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
2
Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
1
If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
4 hours ago
Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
2
2
Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
1
1
If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
4 hours ago
If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
4 hours ago
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death
First off, you don't need those initials. In fact, you need to not use them. A series should have terms with identical grammatical roles. It shouldn't have two nouns and a verb phrase.
Second, even though Discipline, Maturity, & Remembering Death or To Remember Death work grammatically, they're both so awkward that you should just think of them as wrong too. Parallelism prefers using identical formats in a series. Discipline, Maturity, & Death was far better. Whatever sexual connotation Urban Dictionary might give it isn't part of Wiktionary or the general culture. It's not as if you're carefully analyzing something like "POOP" or "IANAL" where some readers wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
On the other hand, language aside, your categories seem badly considered. Death is the act or state of being dead. Remembering and being mindful of death is simply part of maturity... as is having discipline. It seems very likely that you don't need three terms or an acronym at all. If you do, you're probably stating your categories badly.
should the r be capitalised?
Yes, if you were using that word.
would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD.[?]
No. That should indicate that RD (impossibly) were the first two letters of the third term.
[o]r D.M.RD without the final full stop[?]
No. That is simply incorrect in English, although common in East Asian languages. It's fine to use no stops at all, though, which is what you should do in a case like this where you're unsure about the details.
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death
First off, you don't need those initials. In fact, you need to not use them. A series should have terms with identical grammatical roles. It shouldn't have two nouns and a verb phrase.
Second, even though Discipline, Maturity, & Remembering Death or To Remember Death work grammatically, they're both so awkward that you should just think of them as wrong too. Parallelism prefers using identical formats in a series. Discipline, Maturity, & Death was far better. Whatever sexual connotation Urban Dictionary might give it isn't part of Wiktionary or the general culture. It's not as if you're carefully analyzing something like "POOP" or "IANAL" where some readers wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
On the other hand, language aside, your categories seem badly considered. Death is the act or state of being dead. Remembering and being mindful of death is simply part of maturity... as is having discipline. It seems very likely that you don't need three terms or an acronym at all. If you do, you're probably stating your categories badly.
should the r be capitalised?
Yes, if you were using that word.
would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD.[?]
No. That should indicate that RD (impossibly) were the first two letters of the third term.
[o]r D.M.RD without the final full stop[?]
No. That is simply incorrect in English, although common in East Asian languages. It's fine to use no stops at all, though, which is what you should do in a case like this where you're unsure about the details.
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death
First off, you don't need those initials. In fact, you need to not use them. A series should have terms with identical grammatical roles. It shouldn't have two nouns and a verb phrase.
Second, even though Discipline, Maturity, & Remembering Death or To Remember Death work grammatically, they're both so awkward that you should just think of them as wrong too. Parallelism prefers using identical formats in a series. Discipline, Maturity, & Death was far better. Whatever sexual connotation Urban Dictionary might give it isn't part of Wiktionary or the general culture. It's not as if you're carefully analyzing something like "POOP" or "IANAL" where some readers wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
On the other hand, language aside, your categories seem badly considered. Death is the act or state of being dead. Remembering and being mindful of death is simply part of maturity... as is having discipline. It seems very likely that you don't need three terms or an acronym at all. If you do, you're probably stating your categories badly.
should the r be capitalised?
Yes, if you were using that word.
would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD.[?]
No. That should indicate that RD (impossibly) were the first two letters of the third term.
[o]r D.M.RD without the final full stop[?]
No. That is simply incorrect in English, although common in East Asian languages. It's fine to use no stops at all, though, which is what you should do in a case like this where you're unsure about the details.
answered 4 hours ago
llylly
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Does the downvoter mind explaining what they think the problem is?
– lly
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For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death
First off, you don't need those initials. In fact, you need to not use them. A series should have terms with identical grammatical roles. It shouldn't have two nouns and a verb phrase.
Second, even though Discipline, Maturity, & Remembering Death or To Remember Death work grammatically, they're both so awkward that you should just think of them as wrong too. Parallelism prefers using identical formats in a series. Discipline, Maturity, & Death was far better. Whatever sexual connotation Urban Dictionary might give it isn't part of Wiktionary or the general culture. It's not as if you're carefully analyzing something like "POOP" or "IANAL" where some readers wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
On the other hand, language aside, your categories seem badly considered. Death is the act or state of being dead. Remembering and being mindful of death is simply part of maturity... as is having discipline. It seems very likely that you don't need three terms or an acronym at all. If you do, you're probably stating your categories badly.
should the r be capitalised?
Yes, if you were using that word.
would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD.[?]
No. That should indicate that RD (impossibly) were the first two letters of the third term.
[o]r D.M.RD without the final full stop[?]
No. That is simply incorrect in English, although common in East Asian languages. It's fine to use no stops at all, though, which is what you should do in a case like this where you're unsure about the details.
answered 4 hours ago
llylly
7,888836
For my project I need to write the initials DMRD which stands for discipline, maturity, Remember Death
First off, you don't need those initials. In fact, you need to not use them. A series should have terms with identical grammatical roles. It shouldn't have two nouns and a verb phrase.
Second, even though Discipline, Maturity, & Remembering Death or To Remember Death work grammatically, they're both so awkward that you should just think of them as wrong too. Parallelism prefers using identical formats in a series. Discipline, Maturity, & Death was far better. Whatever sexual connotation Urban Dictionary might give it isn't part of Wiktionary or the general culture. It's not as if you're carefully analyzing something like "POOP" or "IANAL" where some readers wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
On the other hand, language aside, your categories seem badly considered. Death is the act or state of being dead. Remembering and being mindful of death is simply part of maturity... as is having discipline. It seems very likely that you don't need three terms or an acronym at all. If you do, you're probably stating your categories badly.
should the r be capitalised?
Yes, if you were using that word.
would it be appropriate to write it as D.M.RD.[?]
No. That should indicate that RD (impossibly) were the first two letters of the third term.
[o]r D.M.RD without the final full stop[?]
No. That is simply incorrect in English, although common in East Asian languages. It's fine to use no stops at all, though, which is what you should do in a case like this where you're unsure about the details.
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Generally you don't use periods with acronyms.
– Hot Licks
5 hours ago
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Such matters are largely a matter of style. Adhere to the discipline of your editor, publication, or organization, or in the absence of a house style, adopt a style manual appropriate to your audience and tastes and be consistent in its application.
– choster
5 hours ago
1
If I see DMD I think of type of dental degree; there are plenty of non-sexual meanings. If you're writing for a professional audience, there's no need to go to such lengths to avoid potentially embarrassing interpretations, as context should be sufficient to avoid giggles. My hometown's entertainment district bills itself as DTF, my church has a ministry called CYA, there're not one but two major U.S. corporations named BJ's, and a major piece of U.S. employment legislation is known as FML. I will grant that the USAF at the Dover Air Show is indeed US AF.
– choster
4 hours ago