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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!robocop.cs.hut.fi
  2. From: weba@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Veijo Paavali L{nsikunnas)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.guns
  4. Subject: Re: what does sks mean?
  5. Message-ID: <1i7oe0INNddc@sauna.cs.hut.fi>
  6. Date: 3 Jan 93 22:59:44 GMT
  7. Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
  8. Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
  9. Lines: 15
  10. Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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  12. In <9301031541.AA26830@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting) writes:
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  15. ##SKS = Samozaridnya Karabina Simonova
  16.  
  17. ##The last two words translate to "Carbine Simonov", Simonov being the name
  18.  
  19. #I'm not familiar with the exact word offhand, but in Russian, the prefix
  20. #Samo- is roughly equivalent to "self-" or "auto-" whence I would suppose
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  22. You're quite right. "Samozaridnya" literally means self-loading.
  23.  
  24. ---
  25. Veijo Lansikunnas               If you are going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
  26. weba@niksula.cs.hut.fi                                       - Il Brutto
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