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1. Is it common for words like Snarge to not be in OED?


(I found the whole premise of the film [Saving Private Ryan]
(sending a 8-man team on a fishing expedition
because the US military cares about the mother's feelings)
to be Woke-induced delusion.)

2. Is it believable that a multilingual Word nerd (ace intelligence officer)
in that situation to NOT know what SNAFU stands for?

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Yes, it is highly common for ultra-niche, highly specialized jargon like "snarge" to be missing from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). While "snarge"rCoan aviation term combining "snot" and "garbage" to describe the biological remains left on an aircraft after a bird strikerCois well-known among pilots and Smithsonian forensic ornithologists, it lacks the broad, multi-industry cultural presence required by major dictionaries.

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Yes, it is highly common for ultra-niche, highly specialized jargon like "snarge" to be missing from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). While "snarge"rCoan aviation term combining "snot" and "garbage" to describe the biological remains left on an aircraft after a bird strikerCois well-known among pilots and Smithsonian forensic ornithologists, it lacks the broad, multi-industry cultural presence required by major dictionaries.

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HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

1. Is it common for words like Snarge to not be in OED?

(I found the whole premise of the film [Saving Private Ryan]
(sending a 8-man team on a fishing expedition
because the US military cares about the mother's feelings)
to be Woke-induced delusion.)

2. Is it believable that a multilingual Word nerd (ace intelligence officer)
in that situation to NOT know what SNAFU stands for?

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Yes, it is highly common for ultra-niche, highly specialized jargon like "snarge" to be missing from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). While "snarge"rCoan aviation term combining "snot" and "garbage" to describe the biological remains left on an aircraft after a bird strikerCois well-known among pilots and Smithsonian forensic ornithologists, it lacks the broad, multi-industry cultural presence required by major dictionaries.

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Yes, it is entirely believable that Corporal Upham did not know what acronyms like SNAFU (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up) or FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) meant.

While it feels ironic that a literal "word nerd" and translator is the only one left out of the loop, his ignorance highlights the rigid divide between different sectors of the military during World War II.

1. He is an Intellectual Academic, Not a Grunt

Upham is a book-smart intellectual who was pulled directly from a desk job doing map-making and translation work. He is fluent in formal academic languages (French and German) but is completely alienated from combat GI subculture. Military acronyms like SNAFU and FUBAR were vulgar slang coined by frontline infantrymen to mock the chaos and bureaucracy of war. Because Upham had never been closer to the front lines than basic training, he had never been exposed to the colloquial dialect of the common grunt


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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

Upham is a book-smart intellectual who was pulled directly from a desk job doing map-making and translation work. He is fluent in formal academic languages (French and German) but is completely alienated from combat GI subculture. Military acronyms like SNAFU and FUBAR were vulgar slang coined by frontline infantrymen to mock the chaos and bureaucracy of war. Because Upham had never been closer to the front lines than basic training, he had never been exposed to the colloquial dialect of the common grunt

Explain something for me please. You , like I , have a newsgrouper ID. Do you read via newsgrouper? How can you not know that your ridiculously long lines are hard to read via newsgrouper ?

Explain something for me please. You , like I , have a newsgrouper ID. Do you read via newsgrouper? How can you not know that your ridiculously long lines are hard to read via newsgrouper ?

It just depends on the setting -- Turn on the [Wrap] (lines around) setting please.


Long lines cause no problems in https://rec.puzzles.narkive.com/


It looks bad in https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles but maybe that's also just a setting (my Config) problem ------------- I can't post from this site.(pls Help!)


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All these sites seem to (very gracefully) (silently) skip extra (repeated) spaces between words.

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