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And of course French normally doesn't pronounce the last 3 or 4 letters in any word, for example "il court" and "ils courent" are pronounced exactly the same ("he runs" and "they run", respectively), so I would say that shortening words is very, very common in French :-)
^ Yeah, same theme here. Like in "hyvää viikonloppua" (happy weekend) becomes "viikonloppui", "tuossa tuo on" (there it is) is just "tos", "minä menen" (I'll go) is "mä meen", "oletko nähnyt" (have you seen) becomes "ooks nähny". "Olen samaa mieltä" (I agree) can be just "sama".
Okay, in Finnish "oke" or just O.K. is due to the shortness and many possibilities widely used.
"Jeet? No, jew?" = Did you eat? No, did you?
telly = television
info = information
scrip = prescription
doc = doctor
sup = superintendent (apartment manager)
soup doc = superintendent of documents (the head boss of the U.S. government printing office)
frat = college fraternity
convo = convocation
The U.S. military uses many acronyms, for instance CINCLANT, CINCPAC - commander in chief, atlantic / pacific fleet
Last edited by slowlane3; 09-15-2014 at 06:52 PM..
And of course French normally doesn't pronounce the last 3 or 4 letters in any word, for example "il court" and "ils courent" are pronounced exactly the same ("he runs" and "they run", respectively), so I would say that shortening words is very, very common in French :-)
This is very informative.My French teacher never told me these(except for la fac,j'sais pas,and t'as).
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