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Re: conlangers of the world, create!

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 20:36
> > >>If we take Soviet usage as the official, > > In fact, the Soviet usage varied depending on the language. The Soviet > newspapers had the custom to put this slogan next to their titles in all > the 15 titular langs of the Republics, and I recall that some versions > had literally 'of all the world'. E. g. a Turkic one: Butun dunyo > proletarlary... (birleshingiz or something; was it Azeri or perhaps > Turkmenian?) (_dunyo_ < Arabic _dunya:_).
Yes, now that you mention it, I remember that on the arms of the USSR there was the slogan written in the red ribbons in the different languages.
> > >Yes, but _proletarij_ [...] > > proletarii (pl.) > > >are surely "members of the proletariate" which is by > >no means synonymous with "workers" (except, maybe, in Marxist propaganda). > > > >BTW ain't the Russian for "worker" _rabotnik_ ? > > A rather archaic word. BTW, pl. _rabotniki_ (_rabotnitsy_ are 'female > workers'). The normal word is _rabochij_ (substantivated adjective: pl. > _rabochije_). _robotnik_ or somesuch is used in several other Slavic > langs. > > > Basilius >
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