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Re: Similar (was: 'useful') languages

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12:20
Pavel Iosad scripsit:

> Huh? A perfectly Russian adverbial suffix that -o is...
Well, yes, but the context is that of labeling someone, so it is an adjective here, ergo the ending is probably Romance.
> Only, that should be "Nekul'turno"! :-)
I'm sure the "ni" is a representation of Russian vowel reduction. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_

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