aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- Re: [aaus-list] Russification of the list; linguistic query

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

I still stubbornly believe that the "russification" discussion has been
not only interesting but very useful, and that between the lines of
intended or inadvertent silliness A LOT got said. I thought that the
pomposity of "academic decorum" died around 1968, and that a different
type of discourse now prevails, saying more than is visible at first
glance, and saying it obliquely or, if you will, ironically. I have not
seen anybody, including myself, offending anybody seriously, except
perhaps the author of the "official" statement of "the governing body," in
which senior scholars were treated like naughty schoolbys.

As far as I am concerned, I promise never to provoke another such chain of
opinion. I do so with great sorrow.









On Tue, September 11, 2007 9:45 pm, Robert DeLossa wrote:
> Alright, alright... Before I have to start issuing detentions,
> suspensions, and enforced peer mediation or even a visit to the
> list's social worker for niceness lessons, let's stop the ad hominem
> stuff and the nitpicking at each other's fields. We have some good
> discussion and useful suggestions (e.g., Roman Szporluk's "write the
> editors") and some not-so-nice "silliness." It does no good for any
> of us to devolve these discussions to the level of the barbarity that
> we all feel has been done to the language about which we care.
> Dosyt'! Play nice.
>
> Now, an inquiry. In his History of Ukrainian Literature, Hrushevs'kyi
> uses the word provid' (note the final soft d') in the phrase
> "apostol's'ka provid'." The word isn't in the 11-volume dictionary
> (only provid, hard d). The context implies either "apostolic
> succession" or "apostolic mission," both of which are conceivable
> from the root. Anyone know the term? I'd be much obliged.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob DeLossa, aaus-list co-moderator (and urban-school
> teacher/administrator who sees more than enough bad behavior during
> the day...)
>
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