aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- RE: [aaus-list] russification

["Kravchuk, Bob" <rkravchu@uncc.edu>]

Dear Colleagues:

I generally do not get involved in these discussion threads, though I do
read them all. Most of the time, they are both interesting and
informative. I learn a great deal from you all. But this line of
discussion is just getting silly - and sillier by the moment. In the
end, everyone must recognize that Ukrainian and Russian are related, but
separate languages. Russian officialdom resents this, in that they
strongly resent the loss of empire. Vse!

-Bob Kravchuk

Robert S. Kravchuk
Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Charlotte, NC  28223



-----Original Message-----
From: aaus-list-bounces@ukrainianstudies.org
[mailto:aaus-list-bounces@ukrainianstudies.org] On Behalf Of Rubchak,
Bohdan
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:27 PM
To: aaus-list@ukrainianstudies.org
Subject: [aaus-list] russification

Risking a dispute with a professional Ukrainian linguist, I see the
problem as very simple: lacking the sound "h", Russian has no
alternative
but to distort Latin, as it has no alternative but to distort the great
German poet's name in the monstrous "Hjote". Ukrainian possesses, but
ignores, the means to avoid all three distortions (two in the poet's
name), or, more precisely, to approximate the original pronunciation
more
closely.

Should the Ukrainian language in Ukraine willfully ignore its own
structure in order to proceed on the road to its Manifest Destiny? Are
there any INTERNAL reasons for this?

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