Re: Language Identification?

In a message dated 2003:11:17 04:28:59 AM, isaacp@UKR.NET quoteth & writes:

>> There is an IAL called Slovio, which according to its creators should
>be immediately understandable to all Slavs.
>
>Which in fact is *not* immediately understandable and sounds ugly for a
>person like me (L1 - Russian, L1.5 - Ukrainian).
    LMAO! Yuri, my polyglot fiend-friend (L1 - Ukrainian, L2 - Russian, L3 -
Yiddish, L4 -Italian... ack!... L38 - Vietnamese, L39 - Hmong... and
counting!!!), informs me that he once was semi-fluent in Slovio ["My brain is not big
enough to waste on it."]!
    And he says Slovio sounds like:

    >drunken, nasal-as-hell Kalingrad Russian grudgingly grumbled - and
slurred >beyond all recognition - with mouth sores, bleeding gums and > a case of
wheezing sniffles.
>   An ass-ugly language if there ever was to be one!
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