Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging
| From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 19:49 |
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Grozny=great=terrible? Ivan the terrible? Just
checking my cognates. Isn't "grozny" also related to
the Polish unit of currency? (Or are they in
Euro-land now? They would be, wouldn't they?)
Clint
--- Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> wrote:
> Jumping in...
>
> [Christophe:]
> > Modern Russia is still totalitarian, despite
> > a pretension of democracy, but it's not fascist
> anymore.
>
> Good to know :-)
>
> I wouldn't say it's really totalitarian in here,
> it's rather that the
> political cuture has changed little since the good
> ol' times of Ivan
> Grozny (that's the XVI century, just in case). Or
> possibly from earlier.
>
> Pavel
> --
> Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru
>
> 'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
> --JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club
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