Farooq Sattar, a parliamentary leader of the Muttahida National Movement, best known by its Urdu language abbreviation, the M.Q.M., said his party, which is a partner of the governing coalition, was voting for General Musharraf for his stance on terrorism and his macro-economic achievements.
This language variation table is an important UrgIndex asset for processing natural language data that are sometimes approximate (employing common words instead of medical words, regional words, abbreviations or unconventional acronyms or spelling or typing errors).
The English-language abbreviation, an incongruous sight in this most xenophobic of countries, now turns up in everything from wall posters to children's songs.
"The Kurds will take their right to self-determination under any political regime, with President Assad or without him," said Haval Mahmud, a militiaman with the Democratic Union Party, known by its Kurdish-language abbreviation, P.Y.D., in Qamishli.
Is is perhaps true that our notion of an abbreviation is idiosyncratic, compared to the more general meaning of the term, especially regarding the English language, where abbreviations are often defined as any type of shortened term, including acronyms ("MI - Myocardial Infarction"), shortened words or phrases (e.g., "pt - patient"), and symbols (e.g., "eth - ethanol") [ 45].
Australia must be world champions in the use of acronyms, so there is a whole new language of abbreviations to learn and different terminologies that can at first seem strange (everyone on a grant is a principal investigator, not just the person leading the project, and a PDF is a postdoc, not an electronic document).
Language family abbreviations: AA Austroasiatic, AN Austronesian, ST Sino-Tibetan.
Language family abbreviations: AA Austroasiatic, AN Austronesian, P.Drav.
Language family abbreviations: AN Austronesian, Hm-M Hmong-Mien, Sino-Tibetan-Austronesianesian (of Sagart 2008).
You will get schooled on the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the State Department, its alphabet soup of acronyms, its secret language of abbreviations.
