Yesterday at work there was this URL to a protocol document, and the beginning of the URL was www.fas.lsu.edu. And because the document was a PDF, I thought that fas.lsu.edu was a directory, rather than a website; and because I am a big geek, I thought someone had cutely named the directory fas because it was full of policy information.
Like fas, the opposite of nefas (from which! nefarious! a delightful word!). Fas means like, right, as in the right thing to do, religiously right. I was really excited and I wanted to write a letter to the people who made the directory and be like, “I got your joke! It was funny! Policies in a right-things-to-do directory!”
But then I remembered that I am in real life, not Latin-Land. It stands for Financial and Accounting Services.
Pooh.
Aww. But maybe they chose to call it Financial and Accounting Services, rather than, say, the marginally more euphonious (as it lets you read Accounting as a noun and not an icky noun-turned-adjective) Accounting and Financial Services, precisely for the sake of that joke.
ReplyDelete(At Harvard, fas means Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is what I thought your fas would stand for too until I read on.)