Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 2:19 |
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:55:58 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>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_.
>Unfortunately, I've not managed to force similar habits on any of my conlangs.
>Is anyone doing so for his/her conlang?
Actually, I've been considering that for borrowings of English phrases in
Lindiga, for foreign concepts like "political correctness" (polkor) and
"intellectual property" (inteprop).
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