Re: NATLANG: Scary Document

John Cowan wrote:
>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.
The reformed English of Oceania in Orwell's "1984" did this too: Miniluv <
Ministry of Love (the Secret Police, IIRC), Ingsoc < English Socialism.

Dan

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