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Re: NATLANG ruki-rule in Slavic

From:Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>
Date:Monday, August 18, 2003, 15:07
Hello,

> Excellent, thanks! (Always nice to have your expectations > confirmed! :-)
Yo're welcome :)
> BTW how easy/hard is Bulgarian to read for a Russian? > The same order as Danish/Swedish I would suspect.
Probably. Bulgarian being a South Slavic language is not much of an obstacle, since Russian is so soaked in Church Slavonic, half of the words are Russian all the same. So getting the gist of a text (and especially a text on a familiar topic, with all the terms built on Russian, sorry, Church Slavonic derivational models out of Latin roots) is quite easy. A more random text, such as fiction or probably news may be harder, but *I* don't have much difficulty either. Of course, longer strings like _s@m shtyal da s@m mislil_ (future perfect in the past) can be quite daunting, but then it's not a very frequent construction :-) As for Danish, reading it is not an insurmountable task , even with my quite limited Swedish. Listening to it, OTOH, is a nightmare. Minimal as my experience with spoken Danish is, I can't understand a word, even if it's sloooow and simple (unlike Norwegian). Do the Swedes have much difficulty understaning the Danes? Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth --Welsh saying

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