tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post7048062869869693954..comments2024-01-02T21:52:58.449-05:00Comments on Polyglot Vegetarian: VejeterianzMMcMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18050858208942064042noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-78707642816193853832012-03-19T04:42:35.263-05:002012-03-19T04:42:35.263-05:00Hi,
From "http://www.languagehat.com/archive...Hi,<br /><br />From "http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004039.php"<br /><br />I happened to see your comment regarding 'Oriental Jones.<br /><br />Dr. Prodosh Aich in his book 'Lies with long legs' gives a good description of how William jones became Oriental Jones.<br />You can read it online for free from this website www.lieswithlonglegs.comSandeepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-83122695196298846412012-02-18T23:19:06.181-05:002012-02-18T23:19:06.181-05:00Sure. The history of orthographic reform at the co...Sure. The history of orthographic reform at the confluence of pan-Slavism and the rise of nationalism is fascinating. And full of bold characters. Though none of them were vegetarians, so far as I am aware.<br /><br />As you probably know, the Serbian Karadžić was influenced in his thinking by the Slovene <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jernej_Kopitar" rel="nofollow">Jernej Kopitar</a>. In a mini-autobiography written in the third person, Kopitar <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tzcEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow"> claimed</a> that he learned English from “six lovely volumes of Gibbon,” which if true would have resulted in a most remarkable style, even for the early nineteenth century, and even allowing for the unsure pronunciation from a brief tutoring in Trieste. In a <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=VkANAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA101" rel="nofollow">letter</a> to Ignac Kristianović at the height of the Abecedna Vojna, he called háčeks, »böhmischen Fliegendreck«.<br /><br />In a review of <a href="http://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B" rel="nofollow">Milovan Vidaković</a>'s Љубомир у Јелисијуму, Karadžić and Kopitar parodied (unfairly) their rival's Slaveno-Serbski by giving a <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=eQ0TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow"> pair of macaronic Gotho-German Pater Nosters</a>, blending Wulfila through Luther. (See, for instance, “<a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/306226" rel="nofollow">Jernej Kopitar's Role in the Serbian Language Controversy</a>.”) As I've mentioned on this blog a couple of times before, I collect polyglot Pater Nosters.<br /><br />P.S. Looking forward to more profiles on your new blog. Dirty Dick Burton is, of course, a favorite.MMcMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18050858208942064042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-80987124421594279362012-02-17T05:41:28.134-05:002012-02-17T05:41:28.134-05:00I've enjoyed reading this rather short post :)...I've enjoyed reading this rather short post :)<br /><br />Regarding spelling and dieting reformers I'm afraid I can't help you with that, but I can offer you an example of successful language reformer, although not English: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87" rel="nofollow">Vuk Stefanović Karadžić</a>polyglothttp://all-about-polyglots.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-61920266589196907842011-10-12T02:18:08.546-05:002011-10-12T02:18:08.546-05:00I second Language's comment. A very interesti...I second Language's comment. A very interesting post. There is a book to be written, or maybe it has been, on modernist proposals that either haven't yet passed into the mainstream or, like shorthand, pop in and then back out.<br /><br /><i>transliterate my play entitled “Androcles and the Lion” into the Proposed British Alphabet assuming the pronunciation to resemble that recorded of His Majesty our late King George V. and sometimes described as Northern English.</i> Described by whom? George V doesn't sound like a northerner to me, he sounds perfectly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pShTJBoAY" rel="nofollow">normal</a>. "Northern English" may have a special meaning, though <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_English" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> doesn't mention it.AJP Crownhttp://abadguide.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755950306920485021.post-69601918312663519152011-08-16T18:41:55.546-05:002011-08-16T18:41:55.546-05:00What a delight to see you back! (We the devotees ...What a delight to see you back! (We the devotees of PolyVeg will accept this "short post" as a foretaste of more Brobdingnagian ones to come.)languagehathttp://www.languagehat.com/noreply@blogger.com