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Why TAK and not TAC?

Discussion in 'Ariadna' started by coleslaw, Oct 24, 2018.

  1. coleslaw

    coleslaw Veteran

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    A friend made me aware that I'm writing TAK everywhere but in the army the sectorial is named TAC (Tartary Army Corps). And when I look around I see it everywhere.
    Anyone uses TAC at all? Is this a case of the presentation of the sectorial being spoken so no-one noticed when the it was written with a C? Or is it named TAK in Spanish?
     
  2. Hecaton

    Hecaton EI Anger Translator

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    I think it's that it would be "TAK" in Russian. The initials for a sectorial seem to follow the native language ordering.

    Maybe someone who knows Russian could confirm?
     
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  3. Káosz Brigodéros

    Káosz Brigodéros Vanguard, Inc.

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    татарский армейский корпус
    tatarskiy armeyskiy korpus
    De nada.
     
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  4. coleslaw

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    Thanks! Great to know
     
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  5. Scribbler

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    I have been learning to speak Russian for several years now, and I think that @Káosz Brigodéros has the right idea. Russian only has one letter that makes /k/ sound (К), unlike English and (to my limited knowledge) French, which will preferentially use a C to make that sound. So the TAK acronym is probably a result of transcribing the Russian Тартарскйи Армейский Корпус into Latin characters.
     
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