Re: Wenedyk - Adjectives

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:06:08 +0100 Jan van Steenbergen c'azdy:

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 --- Toksyka wipra£a Icyk skrzypszy:
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Impressed!

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The solution is actually quite simple: |brzew| will be "short in
time", |krut|
will be "short in size" (I've always been like that. When I can't
choose
between two options, I usually take both).
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Smart boy!

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By the way, where does the English word "short" come from? I presume
it must be
cognate to Du. "kort", Ge. "kurz", Fr. "court", Ru. "korotkij", etc.,
but if
so, I'm seriously wondering how/why the /k/ could change to /sh/.
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In OE it was |sceort| (c stands for /k_j/) > [SOrt]. I don't  know why
there is an additional s- here.
But I read somewhere that it was a common phenomenon in Germanic langs
to add it in Anlaut...

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> Well, Romanian can offer you smth like |bàrbatului| which is G.-D.
of
> above ;-)
Hmmm. Perhaps I'll reconsider.
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It's up to you. The system you have now looks neat!

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I thought your L1 was Ukrainian, Russian being your wife's L1?
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No! Vice versa!

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Anyway, for the same reason Latin-based conlangs are not very
inventive. But
Wenedyk is not meant to be either beautiful or original. It's just
that I find
it very interesting to work on it. However, I save my originality for
Hattic
and Askaic.
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I fully understand. My attitude is the same!

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Is this a particulal Kievan phenomenon? I asked my girlfriend (who is
from
Lviv, as you might recall) if she has ever heard of it, and she said
nope (to
be more exact: "nie" :) )
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Lviv is a kind of a different planet...
If seriously, the phenomenon of "surzhik" exists mostly in Eastern
Ukraine due to lack of proper education in Soviet times.

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Could it be considered some sort of a transitory dialect, maybe a
hybrid?
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It's definitely a hybrid, like Middle English.

Cheers,
Yitzik
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