[lbo-talk] former-blah and ex-bleh

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue May 2 09:17:48 PDT 2006


Well then, it could only be interpreted as a repressed wish...that the Soviet Union would return...

Joanna

ravi wrote:


>A question for Joanna, Carrol and other language type people:
>
>I notice a lot of people write fSU (by which I am assuming they mean
>former Soviet Union) or ex-USSR, etc. I can understand the use of former
>or ex in the case of entities that continue to exist (or were replaced
>by an equivalent one): ex-president Bill Clinton, my former spouse
>Leslie Nagsalltime. But it seems strange to use them otherwise. There is
>no Soviet Union today and the only Soviet Union was the former one!
>
>What am I not getting?
>
>I am thinking of starting an LBO FAQ, especially to clarify
>abbreviations and acronyms. For a long time I had no clue what a POTUS
>is! ;-)
>
> --ravi
>
>
>



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