Brat ’ ili ne brat’?

[oothappam]

Paul! You are very right about it all. What I meant was that I wish time will stand still long enough for me to learn the present version of what Russian is.I look at Urdu, a mixture of Hindi, Farsi and Arabic. It's a highly respected and cherished language. There's "high"  Urdu and "lower" Urdu, even. It's been used to create exquisite poetry... and it's probably changing with every day too. The way our world has become tiny with our super communications now is making it all happen faster and faster. Maybe I'm just getting old and want it to slow down a little so I can savor something of it.

Nola 


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
>Sent: Aug 13, 2010 8:27 PM
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Brat=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99_ili_ne_brat=E2=80=99=3F?=
>
>[Resending because I didn't notice oothappam was diverting replies to 
>his private address]
>
>oothappam wrote:
>
>> Languages change and grow because they are alive. It's a wondrous
>> thing! 
>
>Absolutely!
>
>> That being said, I still get the creepy feeling that by the time I
>> learn this one, it will have changed so much that I'll have to start
>> all over again. The world is changing so fast! It would be nice if
>> America would stay in America, and that the rest of the countries 
>> could retain their beautiful, unique languages and culture.
>
>Where do you think we got our rich, beautiful English language? Much of
>it was borrowed or stolen from other languages. Russian, too, has
>enriched itself by borrowing from Church Slavic, Italian, German,
>French, and so forth.
>
>The question is not whether to borrow, but when and in what proportions.
>Protectionism will just produce stodgy, stilted, stuffy bureaucratese
>that no one can be proud of.
>
>Still, nobody better touch /my/ language (baby). ;-)
>
>-- 
>War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
>--
>Paul B. Gallagher
>pbg translations, inc.
>"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
>http://pbg-translations.com
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