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From: "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: Re: Pronouncing your name in another language
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:00:38 GMT
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iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) wrote:
>
> In article <D2HrA2.Mz3@actrix.gen.nz> "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz> writes:
> >iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) wrote:
> >> In article <D2G9pL.F36@actrix.gen.nz> "Paul J. Kriha" <kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz> writes:
> >> >[Czech] "Slav slavne^ sla'vu slavny'ch Sla'vu'!"
> >> [...]
> >>   `Gloriously glorify the glorious Glaurung's glory.'
> [...]

> >(3) Sorry, I am not familiar with The Silmarillion.
> >    Are you saying that "Glaurung" is grammatically 
> >    derived from the stem "glor-".
> 
> No, certainly not, but, last I checked, there was no definite proof
> that the last word in your Czech sentence is derived from the same
> stem as the remaining four.  (Check a few etymological dictionaries.)
 
Oh, hmmm, drats.
You are right, of course. A sit here corrected. My apologies.
I just got carried away with what I remembered of Dobrovsky
from my high school years.  He was a _good_ man, :-)
but obviously, shouldn't be trusted _all_ the time.  :-)

He successfully managed to exterminate some imports of
non-Slavic origin from Czech. He will, however, be
forever remembered for trying to replace

"piano"     by "brnkos^lapka" (strummerpedal) and
"kapesni'k" (hankerchief) by "nosohlenoplenka" (nosephlegmcloth).

Although "kapesnik" was already a Czech word he didn't like it 
because it was a _slavish_ translation of German "das Sacktuch".

Paul JK.
