Re: Re- Conlanging
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 4, 2000, 14:42 |
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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:21:48 -0700, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
>Do you know where Lauren Petrich got this
>passage from Illich-Svitych? I looked at
>the website you provided, and it gives a
>wonderful list of bibliographical sources,
>but pulls this lovely text out of the blue.
>Who was V. Illich-Svitych, and where would
>he have been likely to publish this?
>
>Sally
The verse stands as an epigraph in the title page of his "Opyt
sravneniya... ", with the Russian translation.
IIRC, the Russian gloss has "k zhilishchu ushedshikh" - 'to
(the) dwelling(-place) of those-who-are-gone'; no
'ancestors', at least literally.
Basilius