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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis week's dumb word now EVERYWHERE which no one ever heard before:
stan(s).
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This week's dumb word now EVERYWHERE which no one ever heard before: (Original Post)
closeupready
Mar 2014
OP
That's been common shorthand for the former Soviet republics of Central Asia...
Spider Jerusalem
Mar 2014
#4
Okay, but just this week now, it's almost literally EVERYWHERE - military jargon
closeupready
Mar 2014
#6
I've said "Stans" for years re: former USSR, and I'm really NOT in the military!
WinkyDink
Mar 2014
#9
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)1. Marsh?
closeupready
(29,503 posts)3. Well, yeah, lol - and for old geezers like me, Laurel:
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)2. Oh. you're talking about the plane.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)5. Yeah, in terms of "it's in one of the stans"
Do people realize they are talking about a land area larger in scope than the continental United States??
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)4. That's been common shorthand for the former Soviet republics of Central Asia...
since at least the Cold War (I assume you DO in fact mean Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, et al). The first time I heard that has to've been 25 years ago (and I'm not that old; I would have been about 11).
closeupready
(29,503 posts)6. Okay, but just this week now, it's almost literally EVERYWHERE - military jargon
is not typically adopted in the vernacular; and even if so, 'stan' is only this week now being talked about in just about every single story. Kind of makes you wonder if the MIC is laying groundwork for another war?
Anyway, this topic is not 100% serious, was just venting a bit. Cheers.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)9. I've said "Stans" for years re: former USSR, and I'm really NOT in the military!
countryjake
(8,554 posts)7. That's cause nobody knows how to spell 'em (or pronounce them)...
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan
and our old familiar friend,
Afghanistan
wandy
(3,539 posts)8. Here we go with this Stan stuff again...........
Must be around here someplace.
Look at just right and you get a free lapel pin.
Why did this darn fool have to start it with this Stan stuff.
Look at just right and you get a free lapel pin.
Why did this darn fool have to start it with this Stan stuff.