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I love how all the acronyms in the glossary are basically inverted English ones. - BAF - Final Assembly Building - Bâtiment d’Assemblage Final I knew about NA

I love how all the acronyms in the glossary are basically inverted English ones. - BAF - Final Assembly Building - Bâtiment d’Assemblage Final I knew about NATO/OTAN and such, but didn't know it's so universal. They also had fun with some of them: - PLANET - Payload Local Area Network - SHOGUN - SHOck Generation UNit

weinzierl 3y ago
It's not in this manual, but I definitely remember the Ariane to have an "Anti Pogo Device" which kind of sounds anti-fun, in a funny way.
- gruturo 3y ago
  Pogo oscillations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation) are actually quite dangerous and can lead to damage or destruction of the rocket, so yeah.
- Doxin 3y ago
  I'm just imagining a pogo stick with a critically damped spring.
kergonath 3y ago
> I love how all the acronyms in the glossary are basically inverted English ones It's very common because the order of adjectives and nouns is most of the time reversed between English and French (and Romance languages in general; it's the same with Spanish and Portuguese for example), but English retains so much French and latin roots that the initials are often the same. Other examples include - IMF/FMI (international monetary fund/fonds monétaire international) - EU/UE (European Union/union européenne) - and before it EEC/CEE (European economic community/communauté économique européenne) - SARS/SRAS (severe acute respiratory syndrome/syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère) - HIV/VIH (human immunodeficiency virus/virus de l'immunodéficience humaine) And many others I am sure, that's just what I could think off the top of my head.
- wongarsu 3y ago
  Another fun one is UTC. In English it's Coordinated Universal Time, in French Temps Universel Coordonné. To get one name for all languages a compromise was chosen: UTC, which doesn't match either. At least it's a nod to UTC being a version of TAI that's kept in sync with UT2 (UT0, 1 and 2 is time as measured by earth's rotation, with increasing numbers of corrections for wobbling applied).
ExoticPearTree 3y ago
I wouldn't say inverted, just everything translated into french, because for whatever reason, the french feel like everything should be in french. Everyone else on the planet can use english based acronyms just fine in the local language, except the french :)
- Symbiote 3y ago
  Who uses English acronyms in their own language? United Nations: FN (Danish), VN (German), ONU (Spanish), VN (Dutch) European Economic Area: EØS, EWR, EEE, EER And English does it too. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik — DDR — was the GDR in English. Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ = CNG) is the CIS.

weinzierl 3y ago

It's not in this manual, but I definitely remember the Ariane to have an "Anti Pogo Device" which kind of sounds anti-fun, in a funny way.

gruturo 3y ago
Pogo oscillations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation) are actually quite dangerous and can lead to damage or destruction of the rocket, so yeah.
Doxin 3y ago
I'm just imagining a pogo stick with a critically damped spring.

kergonath 3y ago

> I love how all the acronyms in the glossary are basically inverted English ones It's very common because the order of adjectives and nouns is most of the time reversed between English and French (and Romance languages in general; it's the same with Spanish and Portuguese for example), but English retains so much French and latin roots that the initials are often the same. Other examples include - IMF/FMI (international monetary fund/fonds monétaire international) - EU/UE (European Union/union européenne) - and before it EEC/CEE (European economic community/communauté économique européenne) - SARS/SRAS (severe acute respiratory syndrome/syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère) - HIV/VIH (human immunodeficiency virus/virus de l'immunodéficience humaine) And many others I am sure, that's just what I could think off the top of my head.

wongarsu 3y ago
Another fun one is UTC. In English it's Coordinated Universal Time, in French Temps Universel Coordonné. To get one name for all languages a compromise was chosen: UTC, which doesn't match either. At least it's a nod to UTC being a version of TAI that's kept in sync with UT2 (UT0, 1 and 2 is time as measured by earth's rotation, with increasing numbers of corrections for wobbling applied).

ExoticPearTree 3y ago

I wouldn't say inverted, just everything translated into french, because for whatever reason, the french feel like everything should be in french. Everyone else on the planet can use english based acronyms just fine in the local language, except the french :)

Symbiote 3y ago
Who uses English acronyms in their own language? United Nations: FN (Danish), VN (German), ONU (Spanish), VN (Dutch) European Economic Area: EØS, EWR, EEE, EER And English does it too. The Deutsche Demokratische Republik — DDR — was the GDR in English. Содружество Независимых Государств (СНГ = CNG) is the CIS.