Word: shorthand
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...reconnect with its history. In the editorial tradition of signifying a country by its capital, "Bonn" referred to the democratic western half of Germany that achieved unprecedented prosperity in the postwar years. Now that the country has reclaimed its impoverished east, it needs a new signifier ? and what better shorthand for a reunited Germany than "Berlin...
...something to the effect, "You don't want to be here." Below that was the date, not spelled out April 20, as was the custom, but written 4/20 in bold type, a pulsing message easily decoded. "It's weed-smoking day," one student said, referring to the shorthand for going out and getting stoned: marijuana is supposed to contain 420 different chemicals: the Los Angeles police department's code for a drug bust...
...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Min-utes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate"(effeme) or "fuck them...
...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Minutes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate" (effeme) or "fuck them...
...York said the word "woman" often becomes shorthand for "change...