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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 22:20:09 GMT
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mcv@pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal) writes:

>It's funny that Russian, a language that uses an alphabetic script,
>also used a lot of this kind of syllable-acronyms in the Soviet era
>(e.g. kol[lektivnoe]-xoz[jajstvo], mos[kovskoe]-gos[udarstvennoe]-
>prom[yshlennost']).

So also, systematically, in the U.S. Navy!  Bu[reau of]Ships, etc.
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