Re: Lack of ambiguity in Czech, was Re: EU allumettes
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 8:59 |
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In a message dated 2004:05:04 03:44:37 AM, tommiepowell@JUNO.COM writes:
>[...] So the language was reduced to about 650 words before
>the empire eased up on its ban ever-so-slightly (by allowing
>Czechs to form clubs to do calisthenics together, and letting
>them speak Czech with each other in those "Sokol" clubs).
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>Czech intellectuals saw that as a golden opportunity to revive
>the Czech language. But they decided that the "new" Czech
>language should be "pure Czech" -- with no borrowings from
>foreign languages -- so its entire vocabulary would have be
>built out of the 650 words that the peasants had preserved.
You have resources on those 650 Czech words/word-roots - i.e. a reliable
Czech/English wordlist?
(BTW if anyone here has it, I also would love to obtain similar bilingual
word-root list for Japanese and/or German and/or any other similar
"agglutinative, word-compounding 'modular' language" [NatLang and ConLang {I already
have Dublex and Vulcan in the latter category}])
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