Talk:Alphabet soup (linguistics)

Is there no standardised way to separate this article into 2? I just find it a bit ugly that two different subjects are in the article...

LGBTIQA...
If government agencies have a place in this article, which I see is up for grabs, modern subcultural references have a place too, no? Triptenator (talk) 05:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't hurt, especially in those cases where they've adopted the moniker for themselves. That said, the length of your recent edition rather dwarfs the other examples, and probably ought to be trimmed some. MrZaius  talk  14:18, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

References yes, however that entire article detailing all the various letters and numbers that can be used to denote intersex, omnisexual, unsure or two-spirit is entirely out of place since it has hardly anything to do with alphabet soup (and also rivaled in size the paragraph that actually talks about the origin of the term). I removed it and instead added the typical reference "for the LGBT conferense see Alphabet Soup conference". Tekahera (talk) 18:52, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Alphabet Soup in Other Languages?
Anyone know if the soup exists in other alphabets like Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc? I wonder how many cans one would have to go through to eat the entire Chinese alphabet... Wikilackey 06:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)


 * One can estimate this. Chinese needs a slightly larger font size to be readable. Let's go with 8x8x1 mm characters floating in 10x10x2 mm of soup. (rather heavy on the noodles I think, but still probably a legitimate soup) Reading a news web site requires about 2000 characters, or about 13.5 US fluid ounces of soup. That's just one can! Basic literacy requires about 3000 to 4000 characters, or about 20 to 27 US fluid ounces of soup. A well-educated person would know double that. For the 85568 characters in a recent dictionary, you need 4.5 US gallons of soup. 24.110.145.106 (talk) 09:19, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It seems drinkable. But it's not an alphabet. already suggested. http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Chinese_20Symbol_20Alphabet_20Soup Overthinkingly (talk) 02:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

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Separate the acronyms
In my opinion the 'alphabet soup' of acronyms should be it's own article. Anybody agree/disagree? Dotancohen 17:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, that sounds about right. Anyone wanting to split this into 2, feel free.  --Xyzzyplugh 15:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Here here.Triptenator (talk) 05:38, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This was already done - See Alphabet pasta. Sorry - Missed the talk page when I performed the split. The page prior to the split was a weird psuedo-disambig, really two articles in one, just split into two unconnected sections. See this series of edits. MrZaius talk  14:21, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

the public television animated short
I remember a public television series of animated shorts from my childhood (late 70's) called Alphabet Soup. I think it was about racial tolerance and it was quite funky. If you know anything about this series, I love to see something written up on it. ike9898 13:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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What about the soup?
Shouldn't there be a page about ACTUAL alphabet soup, rather than redirecting to the linguistics right away? I mean, there is a product called Alphabet Soup. There also is a PBS Show, a kid's band, and a band in San Fransisco with the same name. Linguistics doesn't cover all these subjects.

Dialsforme —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dialsforme (talk • contribs) 21:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Then go ahead and split into stubs, putting a disb page in front. This page itself could use much more info.Overthinkingly (talk) 02:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Done and done Dialsforme —Preceding undated comment added 13:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC).