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["Rubchak, Bohdan" <kalush@uic.edu>]

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Subject: RE: [aaus-list] russification
From:    "Rubchak, Bohdan" <kalush@uic.edu>
Date:    Tue, September 11, 2007 2:21 pm
To:      "Kravchuk, Bob" <rkravchu@uncc.edu>
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Although our discussion may be silly, it has not yet oversimplified the
problem to Professor Kravchuk's level. Wouldn't be just WONDERFUL if
things were limited to this political scientist's view!




On Tue, September 11, 2007 2:08 pm, Kravchuk, Bob wrote:
> 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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