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On Aug 22, 2012, at 15:51, Gunnar Hellström wrote: > > On 2012-08-22 23:35, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: >> agree >> >> You can say >> >> TTY was derived from Teletypewriter - a device originally used by people who >> are deaf to communicate. But today Teletypewriters no longer exist and TTY >> is used to refer to a type of telecommunications device used by people who >> are deaf that supports Baudot (and sometimes other coding schemes) over >> analog phone lines. >> >> that however is probably too much history. but if you are using >> Teletypewriter - that would be the \correct way to use it. >> >> >> /Gregg/ >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. >> Director Trace R&D Center >> Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering >> and Biomedical Engineering >> University of Wisconsin-Madison > > I do not see TTY as an acronym anymore. > > It is like BT that was read out British Telecom before, but is now just BT. > > Or AT&T was read out American Telephone and Telegraph, but is now just AT&T > > Wiktionary has solved it by putting (originally) after Teletypewriter. > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TTY > > Following that pattern it can be: > > TTY (Teletypewriter (originally)) and other text telephones > > > Gunnar What would help most to alleviate this discussion further is to include an authoritative citation. - - m&m Matthew A. Miller <http://goo.gl/LK55L> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQNVeiAAoJEJq6Ou0cgrSPlNoIANTB6FoQGq139Aj+gMi1IIk+ Q2Q/kGL2+rKaM5/8NU0UnFixrBU2+3ga6so4KYqtFlyjMUGkRrj3LIHn/ic9sFIq GleYhbFU+vDhfiLxtfEqbrAUjnFGK/txWaHidLxtBfCUXdYqn9yhLQXEv7XbZbAH aM2C7tqYL/EFYX0swJ9ZrnrD4f7gVmvnNSCAommFAFwCnZ9onpNU0y/S2b82n1wm KWzoPDJHB7RP/i4BkkQHLmU7U6LqGll8n163fBqzCa1aLZijKYxoGJhqWaQ+NA5s Bn4HOLrtZxY8qjbeK1q9l/BOB2P/Fy/4LI2TcHdBNPwVIysjeRoGmLtiDyQaURs= =qADA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
