Re: Hello everybody
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 3:00 |
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> | > Incidentally, has anyone done anything interesting with
> | > acronymization, abbreviation etc in a conlang? Something that
> | > differs significantly from English?
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> My personal favorite language in the area of abbreviation is Hebrew, where you
> get acronyms and such that become real words: Tanakh, Rashi, STA"M....
My favourites are the old Soviet abbreviations like Gosplan, Sovtransavto,
Sojuzplodoimport, Agitprop, Gosizdat and the like. Hungarian has similar
too, like Mafilm, Malev, etc.
---ferko