Runglish

[Dennis Preston]

I think Darya means Polglish where "Freindka" is OK. In Czech too -
Google search turned up "My Best Friendka" from a Bratislava website).
Guess Russians just can't handle CCC.

dInIs



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>Hello, Wilson and everyone.
>In fact, 'frendessa' (singular) does exist online. The
>three consonants in 'frendka' are just too hard to
>pronounce (in my subjective opinion). Sounds more like
>Ponglish)
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>There even is 'frendA', though it's not so wide-spread.
>Funny that the English-speaking community should notice
>these 'Runglish' things only now. The process has been
>going on since the 80-s.
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>Darya.
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>On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:53:12 -0400
>   Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  Someone should have given old Adrian a hand with his
>>transliterations
>>  and morphology. "Friendessi" should be frend-, to which
>>has been added
>>French -esse, with the final -e replaced by Russian -a
>>and pluralized
>>  with Russian -y, yielding "frendessy." "Drrink" should
>>be "drink" and
>>  "loozer" should be "liuzer." That's assuming that the
>>author didn't
>>  simply make up these "words." "Frendessa" seems very
>>unlikely. I'd
>>  expect "frendka," as in _sportsmen_ "sportsman" v.
>>_sportsmenka_
>>  "sportswoman."
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>>  -Wilson
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