Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 15:06 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> More on-topic, on of the more attractive features linguistically of the good ol'
> and thankfully dead Soviet Union was the prevalence of officialese abbrevs made
> of the first bits of the constituent words, eg _Sovnarkom_, _SmerSh_, _GULag_.
The U.S. Navy (but not the other parts of the U.S. armed forces) does this
too: the Office of Naval Operations is OpNav, e.g. My favorite assistant
was the functional title "Assistant Communicator", which became AssCom.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@...>
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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