USAGE: German Abbreviations (Re: Introducing myself, and several questions)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 17, 2005, 10:04 |
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On 17 Feb 2005, at 8.43 pm, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> Heck some would argue that if Dutch were a conlang, its word
> |natie| for "nation" would offend anyone who remembers the
> Holocaust because it's pronounced roughly ["na.t_si].
> (Forgive me if I mistranscribed it into X-SAMPA; some details
> of the notation are still new to me.)
I'm suddenly reminded of a question I have:
How does _National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeitespartei_ (pardon the
spelling!) reduce into _Nazi_? Is it just a phonetic spelling of the
first four letters of 'National'? Is/was this a common way of
abbreviating stuff in German?
--
Tristan.
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