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is the long form of the word for the short form of a word.

is the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury.

Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously. John Horne Tooke, in Epea Pteroenta, or The Diversions of Purely (1786)

is, ironically enough, a rather long word.

is an inordinately long word in light of its meaning.

is a deeply sinister act, degrading the things whose names are abbreviated.

Language has been reduced to a series of cute abbreviations that fail to capture the dignity of the things to which they refer. “University” becomes Uni in German or U. in English, so that the University of Texas becomes “UT,” just as “political science” becomes “poli. sci.” Heidegger regards this apparently harmless process as deeply sinister, since it degrades the things whose names are abbreviated.

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