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Skriven 2005-07-31 15:32:46 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
    Kommentar till text 935 av Aleksej R. Serdyukov (2:5020/24000)
Ärende: Re: un- and dis-
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*** Quoting Aleksej R. Serdyukov from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


ARS> Yeah, if I knew any prefix/word except "ne" meaning "opposite", "neutr
ARS> etc in Russian... Than "not" thing is very difficult, see "I don't lik
ARS> something", for example. :-(

If you said 'I dont like something' in english, it would be negative.  If you
said 'i dont not like something' it would be a nominal positive that you kinda
liked it.  A triple negative isnt possible to say gramatically in english as
far as I can figure out but before you worry, most of us would figure out you
meant 'negative in the extreme' if you tried that.

CS> Yup.  See, 'english' like many languages had alot of changes over time
CS> as Hinvaders hit england from various places.  As a result, it's got
CS> stray bits Hrelated to:  latin, german, dutch, welsh, pictish (early
CS> england), and some Hstray french.  Those arent the only ones but are
CS> the more notable ones.

ARS> I guess Russian was somehow restricted by the Orthodox Church (finally
ARS> they've lost it and stuck with their Church Slavonic language apart fr
ARS> normal people ;-), but, though originally constructed perverting Greek
ARS> etc, it at least didn't get such pronunciation as that English has!

Well, to those of us used to it, it's easy ;-)  I gathered over time that
Russian has fewer 'exceptions' both in prounciation and grammar than english.

Then we get to the wierd local meanings.  'Going Postal' probably doesnt mean
anything at all in russian.  In USA/Canada it means to freak out, possibly
dangerously to others.

CS> languages.  Do Hand undo are clear cut cases but there is no such word
CS> as disdo but fear not, Hin *spoken* english most would figure that out

ARS> I'd think that "disdo" means "do the wrong way" or "do wrong to sb/sth

Logical but no one in english would figure that out if written.  Spoken, they
might. It's not a word.

CS> Wanna really be confused?  Try engrish.  That isnt a typo.  Thats the

ARS> Oh, I had StumbledUpon a site about it.
ARS> There were Chinese (marked so, but I think they are actually Russian!)
ARS> shoe inner-soles with very funny instructions on them in Russian!

Hehe i can imagine!  
                                       xxcarol

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