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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: what does sks mean?
- Message-ID: <01GT3FHFC2B68WYS8I@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:13:22 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <9301031541.AA26830@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting) writes:
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- #In <19932.4199.14096@dosgate>
- #patrick.eves@canrem.com (Patrick Eves) writes:
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- CC:
- #>>Does anyone know the meaning of the SKS designation of the SKS model 56?
-
- #>Hi, Chris,
- #
- #>SKS = Samozaridnya Karabina Simonova
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- Samozariadnyj Karabin Simonova
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- (the carbine is a masculine weapon in Russian)
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- #>The last two words translate to "Carbine Simonov",
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- "Carbine by Simonov"
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- #> Simonov being the name
- #>of the designer. As for the first word, maybe try posting it in one of
- #>the language conferences...;)
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- #I'm not familiar with the exact word offhand, but in Russian, the prefix
- #Samo- is roughly equivalent to "self-" or "auto-" whence I would suppose
- #that first word translates to something roughly equivalent to "automatic,"
- #in the substantive sense we apply to many firearms.
- #
- #I have no idea what "zaridnya" refers to; is this really an accurate trans-
- #literation of the word?
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- Self-loading.
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- #Hope this helps,
- #-Sting
- #
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- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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