And I figured out a bit later why that particular initialism* hit me so strongly. The reason is REALLY geeky: For many years, though not recently, one of my favorite reference books was Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto), or PIV. (And real Esperanto nouns end in -o, so sometimes "PIVo"... which is pronounced the same as "piwo", the Polish word for "beer". But I digress.)
And one of my standard reference sites is Ethnologue, which has brief descriptions of damn near every language in the world and is the responsible agency for ISO 639-3, the (Int'l Standards Organization's) standard assigning distinctive three-letter codes to all of them. And as I happened to stumble across, there is a language whose code is piv. (In case anyone's interested, it's Vaeakau-Taumako, a language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about 1,650 people in 1999.)
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Re: newbie question
Date: 2012-11-22 01:01 am (UTC)And one of my standard reference sites is Ethnologue, which has brief descriptions of damn near every language in the world and is the responsible agency for ISO 639-3, the (Int'l Standards Organization's) standard assigning distinctive three-letter codes to all of them. And as I happened to stumble across, there is a language whose code is piv. (In case anyone's interested, it's Vaeakau-Taumako, a language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about 1,650 people in 1999.)
* initialism: link, link, link, link