Mystery Language: 2 suggestions: Ty ham i vor nerusskii!! and another one:)

[B. Shir]

 - Teega mee Bornie Roosa -

Recently I happened to read a new play where some
characters speak "similare" Russian, very identical to this
phrase:). 
Trust me: if I didn't know what the author "wanted"
to say (he actually  told me!) - I would never have
guessed!


Therefore: my suggestion is:

Tee might be tY: "you" (long i in transliteration)

then follows mysterious  gamee - bor , gamee - boH?
(British spelling! maybe just BO = long o - stressed O
bo like ibo= as, because

and then -- nie rOOsa = ne rUsa (ne russkaia? non Russian?)
 "bo ne ruska"???
the last portion for me is "because not Russian" bo ne rusa

What is gamee? ga - mE (mne? for me? to me?)

However, the easier decoding would be:

not TY GAM  EE, but (in Russian)

TY HAM I VOR nerusskii!! maybe she just swore!:) or
 
ty ham, ibo ne rusa

See if this helps:)

Liza Ginzburg






--- Ajda Kljun <ajda.kljun at SIOL.NET> wrote:

> I am a native speaker of Slovene and I am very sceptical
> about this phrase 
> being Slavic at all. 'Bornie' sounds a bit like the
> Slovene 'borno' 
> (something like 'poor'), but I can't figure out what the
> other words could 
> possibly mean.
> 
> Ajda Kljun
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Deborah Hoffman" <lino59 at AMERITECH.NET>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:04 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Mystery Language
> 
> 
> >I generally have no use for autotranslation, but one
> "language guesser" 
> >suggested Manx for your phrase.  Now why a Yugoslav
> Princess would speak 
> >_any_ Gaelic language is beyond me, but...:-)
> > 
>
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/Demo/textcat.html
> >
> >    Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:59:31 -0700
> > From: STEPHEN PEARL
> > Subject: Mystery Language
> >
> > Dear SEELANGERS,
> >
> > In one of his books, "Over My Dead Body", Rex Stout,
> the creator
> > of the master detective, Nero Wolfe, has a bogus
> Yugoslav Princess
> > utter the following : "Teega mee Bornie Roosa". This
> expression is a
> > phonetic representation of her words transcribed by
> Wolfe's assistant and
> > amanuensis, Archie Goodwin, a notorious and unrepentant
> monoglot. The
> > meaning of the words was: "Over my dead body" and were
> understood by Nero 
> > Wolfe, a native Montenegrin and speaker of what was
> then Serbo-Croatian, 
> > as well as six or seven other languages.
> >
> > The reader is clearly intended to assume that the
> language in
> > which these words were uttered was some kind of
> "Yugoslav"/ Balkan/Slavic
> > language. Over the years I have asked speakers of
> pretty well every
> > European language I can think of [ except for Romany, a
> language of which
> > I have never been able to find a speaker] if they could
> identify the
> > language in question, but have come up empty.
> >
> >
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