====== Ajde ======

===== Recruitment =====
When I was teaching at Arizona State University in 1972, a
fellow professor, [[krewe:noms:kto-to|Lee Croft]],
introduced me to NPL. He dropped out a long time ago, and I do
not even remember his nom . . . . 

//First Issue//: Jan 1976

===== Recruits =====

None.

===== Nom ======
"Ajde" is a Slavic incohative command..."Let's go" or
"Let's do it." It has manifestations in Polish (her ethnic
background) and in Serbian and other SL's. 

Source: email from [[krewe:noms:kto-to|Kto-To]].

[[krewe:noms:kto-to|Lee]] is correct about the meaning of
my nom. I was so excited when I joined that I could hardly
wait to get going!

In Serbo-Croatian (or, maybe more precisely these days:
Serbian and/or Croatian), "hajde" is the dictionary form.
It's treated as an imperative verbal form; you can also say
"hajdemo" (or "hajdmo"), or "hajdete" (addressing more than
one person)--they all mean basically the same thing--"let's"
or "let's go...". People actually *say* both "hajde" and
"ajde" (The "h" in Serbo-Croatian is rougher than in American
English-- closer to the guttural "ch".) And in Macedonian,
the inital "h" that appears in many Balkan words often
disappears. Thus, "ajde" is the standard (and probably
only--though them's dangerous words in the field of
linguistics...) form here.

==== Combinoms ====

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===== Offices =====

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