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Skaltura:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 30 Jun 2013, 05:21 ---Reminds me of a german joke. These guys have an "AküFi". "Abkürzungsfimmel", which roughly translates to "obsessed with acronyms"…
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Easily showcased by our fine armed forces, where we encounter such mythical beasts as the BeauftrSdAufgBwNL (Beauftragter für Sonderaufgaben im Bereich der Bundeswehr in den Neuen Ländern/Special representative for duties in relation to the Bundeswehr in the new federal states) or the KdoOpFüEingrKr (Kommando Operative Führung Eingreifkräfte/intervention forces command).
There are many many more. :psyduck:
ankhtahr:
Yep. My grandfather being a "OStFw a.D.", "Oberstabsfeldwebel außer Dienst" and my father having been a "Lt. d.R.", "Leutnant der Reserve", I heard a lot of these abbreviations they have in the Bundeswehr.
Loki:
Pff. Germans have nothing on Soviet Russians. They used to take part of one word, parts(s) of other word(s) and glue them together.
A comparatively mild example is Politbureau, whereas more severe cases include kolhoz which is short for kollektivnoye hozaystvo (collective economy) or komsomol which is short for kommunisticheskiy soyuz molodezhi (communist union of the youth).
The most severe case listed on Wikipedia is "Росглавстанкоинструментснабсбыт" (transliterated and hyphenated: Ros-glav-stanko-instrument-snab-sbyt. Pronunciation here), which is the short, informal name for an institution formally called the "Главное управление по снабжению и сбыту станков, кузнечно-прессового оборудования, инструмента и абразивных изделий при Совете народного хозяйства РСФСР" - "Main Administration for Deployment and Distribution of Machines, Forging Equipment, Instruments and Abrasive Products at the Council of the National Economy of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic".
Incidentally, it appears Lenin hated this kind of words, considering them to be bastardizing the beautiful Russian language. I cannot help but agree with him.
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