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Re: I suggest CEA, and here's why
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 6/9/11 1:17 a.m.
: Yikes! I've been Narcogened! Maybe we could have a badge for that. :P Ha. :) : However, we're partly talking cross-purposes. To clarify, I was only talking : about casual Halo-centric chat. In that situation CEA would do to make : yourself understood with minimal fuss; that much I think you'd concede. : You objected that it "doesn't look right" in not starting with : an H. I don't have that reaction myself, but in any case it's not as if : the lack of an H would be a new thing, bearing in mind the oft-used : abbreviations CE and ODST for a couple of earlier games. : Aside from the "doesn't look right" thing, your objections relate : to organizational concerns (alphabetic convenience, tagging and : searching). Well, that's another matter of course. If we were trying to : decide an ideal term which also takes those into account, you indeed : have some points worth raising. But like I said, I was only concerned with : casual chatty use. As it happens however, I also don't think casual chat : should trouble itself to be influenced by those other concerns; so they : don't sway me against using CEA in contexts such as this forum. I sure : wouldn't be surprised to see plenty of folk including an H at the front, : but personally I'll do without, partly because CEA rolls off the tongue : easier. Generally I agree; "CEA" would then just be a convenient shortening of "HCEA" or "H:CEA" or "Halo: CEA" or whatever else people want to call it; I'm looking to see, I guess, what the best medium-length format is going to turn out to be.

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