Dead-End Discussions (was the/Ukraine)

[Jules Levin]

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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