"Na Velikiy i Moguchiy naveli porchu"
R. M. Cleminson
rmcleminson at POST.SK
Sun Nov 28 22:25:13 UTC 2010
He shows other symptoms of philological illiteracy as well. There is no correspondence between палец and φαλλός, and the idea of a connexion between пир and φήρ is if anything even more fantastic.
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Odosielateľ: "William Ryan" <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>
Komu: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Dátum: nedeľa, november 28, 2010 04:51:00
Predmet: Re: [SEELANGS] "Na Velikiy i Moguchiy naveli porchu"
Steve,
Read it - a good amusing rant. But since he asks philologists and
writers to come to his aid perhaps he should be told that there is a
difference between etymology and meaning. To complain that a "sobranie
pod predsedatel'stvom prezidenta" is a tautology and a stain on the
purity of the Russian language because "predsedatel'" is a calque of
Latin "president" is a Shishkovian silliness because (1) the word
"prezident" is long since de-etymologized; (2) how many Russians know
Latin anyway, even those who have, in the vernacular, "ostepenilis'"?;
(3) the "prezident" in question was presumably the President of Russia
and not necessarily the regular chair of the meeting, in which case how
else could this information have been conveyed?
Will
On 27/11/2010 13:27, Steve Marder wrote:
> A must-read by the satirist Mikhail Zadornov:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2do77qk
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