Re: Brugmann's Law

On 2008-01-17 13:19, Mate Kapović wrote:

> Actually, no. Polish is difficult to understand because they palatalize
> almost everything and that renders it unintelligible.

Or rather, the Polish reflexes of palatalised consonants are often
different from those found elsewhere in Slavic.

> Russian can be grasped when you get the idea of vowel-reduction (i.e. that
> voda is vada etc.), Ukrainian is easier since there is no akanie.

Ah, but they have other funny things you have to get accustomed to, like
o > i in newly closed syllables (<bih, nic^>, etc.)

>> He says
>> Slovak is slightly easier for him than Czech
>
> Definitely true.

For most Poles too, I think.

>> "Hail to the Peace Duke"
>
> Huh?

This particular pun (I've never seen it, but get it) would work
throughout Slavic. Most of out swear-words have very ancient pedigrees.

Piotr