History of Slavonic languages

[Dean Worth]

Gosh, that's funny. I've know Professor Schenker for ages, and he always
seemed Polish to me. But, doubtless, Vam vidnee (Russian). Dean Worth


At 01:32 PM 5/29/01 +0200, you wrote:
>The problem is not with the subject per se but with the authors. In my first
>philology course "Introduction to Slavic Philology" our main study book was
>Schenker's "The Dawn of Slavic". There you'll find very interesting facts
>presented in a very dry and boring fashion. I would be dead bored if not for
>the professor who was a great lecturer. There was only one bad thing about
>him. He was Bulgarian, so he continuously made fun about Macedonian language
>and culture :(.
>
>Regards,
>U.K.
>
>
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>Subject: Re: History of Slavonic languages
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>> For some of us poor, benighted, culturally-deprived souls the fun does not
>> begin until you get to the history of the Slavonic languages, though I
>> accept that capturing the ludic essence of language history in print has
>> proved somewhat elusive.  I did, however, find the following curiosity in
>> Moscow a few years ago:
>>
>> Tat'jana Mironova, Neobychajnoe puteshestvie v Drevnjuju Rus': Grammatika
>> drevnerusskogo jazyka dlja detej, Moscow, Roman-gazeta, 1994.
>>
>> For some people this would no doubt qualify as child abuse.
>>
>> John Dunn.
>>
>>
>> >Stephen asked: "Does anyone know of any fun books/courses about the
>history
>> >of Slavonic languages?"
>> >
>> >I say: By the time you get to the history of Slavonic languages, fun has
>had
>> >its day.
>> >
>> >Genevra Gerhart
>> >
>> >http://www.members.home.net/ggerhart
>> >New email address: ggerhart at home.com
>> >206-329-0053
>> >
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>> John Dunn
>> Department of Slavonic Studies
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>> University of Glasgow
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>>
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