>>>And while they're at it, would they stop wasting even more of my listening time by saying 'double-u, double-u, double-u' every time! They're practically ALL "www", we all know that by now, and who types that in anyway! Or at least can't it be abbreviated to 'wee-wee-wee' or something (like exclamation point became 'shriek').
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>>I suggest abbreviating "www" as "six-u's". You know, 3 x "double-u", and 3x2=6... <g>
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>It happened already :).
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>In my language, the word for "double" was too long ("dvostruko" - two-stranded, or two-fold), and word "duplo" was borrowed from German.
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>Then you could hear people saying "troduplo", probably meaning "trostruko" (tri-fold, i.e. triple), but then it could mean only sixfold, if anyone took care to think about it.
Interesting. Could that be interpreted as "triple-double"?
OTOH, you mention German in several of your posts. Was Yugoslavia under a lot of German influence?
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