Supposably NATO | B92 Blog http://blog.b92.net/blog/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Chris Farmer sr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rss@b92.net rss@b92.net Blog A-JE! RSS generator v0.3 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:23:23 +0000 http://blog.b92.net/user_stuff/avatars/mali/4/1004.jpg Chris Farmer http://blog.b92.net/ 50 50 Re: This looks like... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720928 ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:25:17 GMT filvas http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Re: This looks like... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720729
naziv je 'NATO' a ne 'NATO pakt', ali je apsolutno pravilno reci 'NATO' pakt.



]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:04:40 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Re: Functional illiteracy... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720725
dare to explain? ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:11 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Functional illiteracy... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720678 You, people, completely missed the point of this blog entry... ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:59:28 GMT partizanka.mira http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Re: And the point of this blog is... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720620 This is about names. Not language and not politics.

The point, to address everyone's concerns in one, is much simpler than this. It is simply, and despite all of the protestations, that there are people (not only in Serbia, I should point out) who refer to NATO as "NATO Pact."

I have however enjoyed all the attempts to reach beneath the surface. I have noted that, as usual, any mentioning of the name NATO is an occasion to vilify either the organization and/or me for bringing it up.

And finally, to StEtOc|nA, I do not think there are many, if any, who glorify Warsaw Pact. That, also, was not said nor the point…

as I already asked you, perhaps you don't understand Serbian?
which does not prevent you to draw conclusions...
cool... ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:52:33 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ This looks like... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720606
ATM machine (automated teller machine machine)
HIV virus (human immunodeficiency virus virus)
PIN number (personal identification number number)

I honestly don't think anything more should be read into it.

Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:40:04 GMT verna_citateljka http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Re: And the point of this blog is... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720600
The point, to address everyone's concerns in one, is much simpler than this. It is simply, and despite all of the protestations, that there are people (not only in Serbia, I should point out) who refer to NATO as "NATO Pact."

I have however enjoyed all the attempts to reach beneath the surface. I have noted that, as usual, any mentioning of the name NATO is an occasion to vilify either the organization and/or me for bringing it up.

And finally, to StEtOc|nA, I do not think there are many, if any, who glorify Warsaw Pact. That, also, was not said nor the point…


]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:29:51 GMT Chris Farmer http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ And the point of this blog is... http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k720153 b) giving us some linguistic lesson
c) describing how NATO is not actually military pact but candy store

because if it is something like d) none of the above... I still don't get it and would like to see the point.

NATO is military alliance or pact or whatever, no logical difference in it. I guess this is some attempt to create new (we are not that bad) and modify public opinion in Serbia about NATO.

BTW nobody here really glorifies Warsaw pact. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:25:08 GMT StEtOc|nA http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Natologies, http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719971
The name in Serbian, Organizacija Severnoatlantskog Ugovora, which was never in use, doesn't seem to describe what it really is, a military pact. Therefore people tend to use a word that has historically connoted a military agreement. The second reason is that the acronym has got the life of its own, as the people increasingly fail to grasp its meaning. Hardly a surprise, given NATO's malignant practices. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:10:49 GMT filvas http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ NATO http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719945 http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:36:28 GMT Blade Runner http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ one more http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719934 ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:27:19 GMT Jelena Pavlović http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ What's in a name? http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719890
Call it anyway you want - it still bombed me. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:09:10 GMT Krugolina Borup http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ size matters? http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719849
(Yes, yes, the word treaty is already there in the name of the organization, but this does not prevent the NATO countries to have a pact, does it?)
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:25:44 GMT marco_de.manccini http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ "Incomprehendable" http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719834
Second, is it possible that people are saying this with an agenda to disparage NATO?

You hit the nail on the head. I don't know if you were here in the 90ies but if you were, you would surely remember clauses such as "NATO criminal horde" and the like, that we were fed by the RTS on a daily basis. Etched indelibly on our minds.
Add some, not unjustified, rancour at the fact that we were bombed by the NATO, and Bob's your uncle. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:02:17 GMT duchesse http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/ Supposably http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#k719828
nobody says 'NATO pact' but 'NATO pakt' and there is absolutely nothing wrong linguistically there.

What is your problem?


]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/#komentari Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:29 GMT mikimedic http://blog.b92.net/text/13077/Supposably%20NATO/