A traditionalist recognizes that certain terminology enters common usage and does not require definition within the text. A traditionalist also recognizes that it's improper to write out something in a quote that wasn't said. The speaker said I-E-D.
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41 posted on 04/05/2009 11:56:09 AM PDT by Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
You are right (of course) about the quotation, but it is proper to bracket an explanation within a quote. My statement about acronyms wasn’t about those in common usage.
45 posted on 04/05/2009 12:25:41 PM PDT by blackd77