Pocket = mobile device version

[Laurence Horn]

OK, but the entry doesn't connect RAS with cases of non-acronymic cross-linguistic creeping opacity.  My favorite is "The La Brea Tar Pits", which snarky Angelenos like to gloss as "the the tar tar pits".

LH

On Oct 12, 2014, at 12:01 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

>> On Oct 11, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 10/11/2014 06:40 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>> Minecraft has a PE (Pocket Edition) edition (yes, pocket edition edition) ...
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>> And I was once roundly criticized for disliking MLS soccer (yes, 
>> major league soccer soccer) and its siblings.
> 
> Sorry, I was too lazy to look up the word for it. It’s RAS syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome>). BB
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