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Old 09-15-2014, 05:02 PM
 
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In French we shorten words all the time, especially in greetings. "Bon anniv" instead of "bon anniversaire" (happy birthday), "bon ap" instead of "bon appétit", "bon week" instead of "bon weekend" (which I guess in English would technically mean something else, but week by itself is not a word in French). And things like "d'ac" instead of "d'accord" (okay), "la fac" instead of "la faculté" (college). Whole phrases like "il y a" just becomes "ya" (there is). Removing letters in personal pronouns like "t'a vu?" instead of "tu as vu?" (have you seen?), omitting the negative word "ne" entirely in spoken French like "j'sais pas" instead of "je ne sais pas" (I do not know).

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 :-)

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Old 09-15-2014, 05:28 PM
 
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^ 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.
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Old 09-15-2014, 06:42 PM
 
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"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

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Old 09-17-2014, 06:01 AM
 
Location: Taipei
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In French we shorten words all the time, especially in greetings. "Bon anniv" instead of "bon anniversaire" (happy birthday), "bon ap" instead of "bon appétit", "bon week" instead of "bon weekend" (which I guess in English would technically mean something else, but week by itself is not a word in French). And things like "d'ac" instead of "d'accord" (okay), "la fac" instead of "la faculté" (college). Whole phrases like "il y a" just becomes "ya" (there is). Removing letters in personal pronouns like "t'a vu?" instead of "tu as vu?" (have you seen?), omitting the negative word "ne" entirely in spoken French like "j'sais pas" instead of "je ne sais pas" (I do not know).

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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