Re: lexicon
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 7, 2001, 20:20 |
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>I bet if Nabokov had written it it would've been good. Did you all know he
>invented a language for one of his novels, Pale Fire? (#54 on the best
>books
>written in English for the 20th century.) It was related to Russian,
>Polish
>and Slovak, I think. Zemlyan. Or was it Zemblan? One of them is a real
>place. It's the one that isn't.
"Zeml(y)a" means "land" or something like that in Russian. Cf _Novaya Zemla_
and _Severnaya Zemla_ in the Arctic Ocean. So you're probably seeking for
"Zemblan".
Andreas
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