Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

Sav bol!
My apologies for procrastination with the reply: festivals always
interrupt creative activity am make me 200 messages behind :-(

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:55:03 +1200 andrew c'azdy:

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Welcum and helo, myn broer, Jitzik-aka.
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Nice combination of exotisms! Hålwesðu!

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> I know OE-based conlangs are not very inventive, but from my
> Russian-L1 viewpoint it's exotic!
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That's all right, from my English-L1 perspective Russian is exotic!
Actually so are a lot of languages, including OE-based conlangs!
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Agree 100%! Langs are fun!
What about Russian-based pidgin?

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> Quite a mix. It's essentialy :-) Russian spoken with strong
Ukrainian
> accent and application of Ukrainian paradygms and link words.
>
It sounds like something that a L1 speaker of either language would
find
strange.
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Yes, it's more than strange for both.

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What is the material product surzhik used for?  Food? Distillation?
Etc?
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Mainly to feed poultry. It usually consists of wheat and barley.
Some people say that you can produce very tasty _samohon_
("moonshine", home-made alcohol) of it. I'm not a specialist in such
things.

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It's the only book that provides a
dictionary and theasurus that translates from English into Englisc.
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Then it's really a treasure!

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I have not read much on linguistics from your side of the curtains,
but
one of my favorite books on Proto-Indo-European is _Indo-European and
the Indo-Europeans_ by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov.  The book feels like it
comes out of left-field, but their reconstruction of Indo-European is
just too irresistable for a conlanger not to play with.
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Since it was in our Uni program, I didn't read it :-)))) D'you think
it's worth reading?

Cheers,
Yitzik
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