LL-L: "Slavic connections" 07.JUL.2000 (02) [E]

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From: Criostoir O Ciardha [paada_please at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: Slavic connections

Dear all,

Pepijn, you are of course correct in your assessment
of the differences and correspondences within and
without Serbo-Croat. In mitigation I should point out
that the 'mljeko' for 'mlijeko' was a typo (yeah,
right, I hear you cry *laughs*). I write to you from a
public library not from home and so my personal Slavic
resources are not always available and I have to rely
on a very flawed personal memory. This no doubt also
acvcounts for any other mistakes I have made, and will
no doubt occur again, so apologies in advance.

Similarly I realised as soon as I had sent the
offending assertion that I had mixed up Croatian and
Serbian; I really should have avoided this considering
that I had had very long discussions with my Bosnian
friends over the differences betwee the variants.
However, with regard to 'hleb' and 'hljeb', I knew
that the Croatians in the northwest linguistic area
used 'kruh', but I thought that the 'hljeb' variant
was used within some Bosnian areas, but which ones I
cannot assert: presumably the area transitional
between 'kruh' and 'hleb'. In Sarajevo weren't all
three in use? I recall a poem from the War which said
something along the lines of (and this is extreme
paraphrasing so no offence intended): "And the
snipers/Who could not tell/Who called bread/'kruh' and
who said 'hleb'..." Now whether this is a device to
indicate the futility of the conflict (which seems
more likely) or a fact on the ground is uncertain.

Nonetheless the reason for my comparison remains in
place: semi-vowel glides do not on the whole make
languages unintelligible. How far this may have
affected communication between a Norseman and an Old
English speaker I will leave open to the other
Lowlanders.

And sorry for my mistake! *laughs*

Criostoir.

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