Re: New ISO country codes

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From: Erik Naggum
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 17:39

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Lupe Christoph <lupe@ukw.uucp> writes:
|
|   >Kazakhstan   - KZ
|
|   Very clever selection. All the Nazis will send their Jews
|   to Kyrgyzstan, now. I would have thought this letter combination
|   would be taboo, given the German history.

All of us aren't Germans you know, and don't have such major problems
with abbreviations just because they were used by Nazis.

The Norwegian Nazi party was called Nasjonal Samling (National
Alliance in English, I guess), and the "NS" abbreviation was
stigmatized for a few years.  Norwegian Standards have names such as
"NS 4133", and nobody have any problems with that.  I called my
company "Naggum Software", and so far only one person has made an
association between "NS" and the Nazis.  Most people don't think of
it.

Not a problem.  Taboos are for suckers, anyway.  :-)

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Subject: Re: New ISO country codes
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