Dead-End Discussions (was the/Ukraine)

[Sarah Ruth Lorenz]

Never fear: Slavists are still tough people.
Maybe that’s all that remains to be said at the end of this “dead-end discussion."



Sarah Ruth Lorenz
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA  70118


On Jun 21, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Jules Levin <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

On 20.06.2014 15:00, Eliot Borenstein wrote:
> We Slavists are tough people.  We survived the Fall of the Yers, and we can get used to "v Ukraine."
>   
Slavists used to be tough people.  Having lived, visited, and spoken with the people of the USSR, they were a little wiser, a little more serious, a little more adult,than other academics.  Paradoxically, they also had a better sense of humor.  They knew a tempest in a teapot when they saw it.  They were also a little less lefty than other academics, seeing the socialist paradise for themselves.

To Edyta Bojanowska, who said "I would submit a useful analogy with a transition to non-gendered language."  You lost me with "non-gendered language", since I assume you are not talking about Hungarian or Finnish.

Best,
Jules Levin

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