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RSVP is from French. I wish I could cleverly work in a "QED" here (from Latin) but it just doesn't fit.
by drewcoo 2y ago
RSVP is from French.
I wish I could cleverly work in a "QED" here (from Latin) but it just doesn't fit.
- Grustaf 2y agoI was talking about spoken language, not the existence of initialisms per se. Though I'd wager they are a lot more prevalent in written American English than in most other languages as well. Nobody else would think of inventing an initialism-euphemism for body odour (which I guess already is a euphemism for "smell" for example. Or "significant other". By the way, QED is just a calque from Greek. (Like most things Roman...)