Russian language

jartur pavlenicvs wrote:

>On 4/1/06, Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> wrote:
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>>>From: Michael Adams <michael.adams1@...>
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>>>Another question:  how different *are* the two languages?  Could OCS be
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>>accurately described as "King James Russian", so to speak?  Or is there more
>>difference between them?
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>>:Chris
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>OCS is the western slavonic language, and Russian is the eastern one.
>There was another, so called Древнерусский (ancient russian), which is
>closer to the moder Russian language, but nevertheless most of modern
>Russian speakers wouldn't understand any of these (though I,
>personnaly, can adopt some texts).
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To adopt a massive oversimplification, Latin is to French as OCS is to
Russian.  It's the liturgical, traditional language, and
half-comprehensible without further education at best.

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