Declension of Acronyms in Written and Spoken Russian

[Richard Robin]

ТАСС never declined (Работает в ТАСС). Neither did СПИД - at first. The term
appeared in 1984 in Russian, but by 1987 it was being declined.

- Rich Robin

2010/10/18 Brewer, Michael <brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu>

> Seems like if they are said as words (like ГУМ or ГУЛаг) rather than
> spelled out (like ЧК, НКВД, or КГБ), they are likely to decline.
>
> Michael Brewer
> University of Arizona Libraries
> brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu
>
>
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> Russian
>
>  В ГУМе springs to mind....
>
>
>
> 2010/10/18 Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY] <
> anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov>
>
> > I'd be grateful if fellow SEELANGtsy could provide some examples of
> > acronyms that decline, in either spoken or written Russian.
> >
> > The one I'm most familiar with, of course, is ЦУП (TsUP), Mission
> > Control Center, and which yields usages such as в ЦУПе (v TsUPe) and
> > от ЦУПа (ot TsUPa).
> >
> > What I'm interested in finding out from the examples is to get a
> > better sense of which kinds of acronyms will decline.  So far, it
> > seems that those that do all end in consonants and are spoken as
> > words, but I'm curious to see a wider range of examples from
> non-aerospace sources.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Tony Vanchu
> >
> > Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu, Ph.D.
> > TechTrans International, Inc.
> > Director, JSC Language Education Center NASA Johnson Space Center
> > Houston, TX
> > (281) 483-0644
> > (281) 483-4050 (fax)
> >
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Richard M. Robin
Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-7081

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