Talk:Alphabet soup

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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...

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[edit] 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)

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)