Ekho Moskvy on INTERNET in Russian

[Dean Worth]

Regarding "pal'to": if I remember my Jakobson correctly, Prince Trubetzkoy
declined "pal'to", in the plural at least, as "pol'ta" (initial stress);
RJ's idea was that if you're a prince, you can do what you wish with the
language, sort of like English lords' use of "ain't" (John Dingley?) Dean
Worth



At 02:31 PM 4/18/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I was listening to Ekho Moskvy the other day, and some language
>specialist types were talking about new words in Russian. The
>question of "Internet" came up. I believe that all agreed that it
>originally was written in Latin (Roman) letters, then went through a
>phase of being written in Cyrillic but not declined, and now is
>commonly both written in Cyrillic and declined. All agreed that it
>sounded fine to put the word in a case. This was a model they were
>offering of how foreign words enter the language. Then someone
>brought up "pal'to," not exactly a new word and much slower at moving
>on than "Internet."
>
>Now what about palatalized consonants before the "e's"? Has that
>taken place yet?
>
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