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> 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 tim
by 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 agoAnother 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).