COPENHAGEN — BINGOS, RINGOS and TUNGOS. BRICs. KP and COPMOP.

If you're a United Nations diplomat involved with climate change, then the above acronyms probably have deep and profound meaning.

But for the rest of the world, the alphabet soup known as U.N. speak makes attending a U.N. conference, or reporting on it, an exercise in decoding as much as anything else.