DeltaXIII on 31 July 2007
| wangfoo said: I'll give you another example with Japanese to Jap. Nippon is the Japanese sounding name for Japan. Nip is a shortened version that is highly offensive. Makes for a great logical abbreviation, but is still offensive. It is a logical abbreviation, sure, but you are trying to put logic into deeply ingrained emotion. It just doesn't work like that. |
*writes down in notes to make sure to not accidently use that* Yeah, I understand what you're saying. Just this last post did I notice, "History is the greatest of comedies" and found it pretty amusing.
Thanks for the interesting discussion all. I'd likely be up for some more grammar and/or linguistics discussions another day.
