Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language

Post by bobthechef » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

wheelerof4te wrote: post #90

zozbot234 wrote: post #85

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I'm pretty sure that "returning to the root Slavic religion" would involve offering massive cow sacrifices to the thunder god Perun in exchange for long life and prosperity. Not sure if that's what you had in mind, though!

Many of us offer sacrifices today, too. In most Slavic countries, it is customary to slay and eat a pig on certain holidays, like Christmas and our Slava. In the US you kill turkeys for Thanksgiving. How different is that compared to other "sacrifices"?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

throwaway290 wrote: post #140

kgeist wrote: post #139

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S- didn't become za-. It's just a different choice of preposition in Russian. S utra = "starting from the morning" Za utra (utrom) = "after the morning" Both have a right to exist, just slightly different original meanings.

That's your opinion, let it be different from mine

Post by throwaway290 » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 2:21 PM UTC

kgeist wrote: post #144

throwaway290 wrote: post #140

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That's your opinion, let it be different from mine

That's not an opinion, that's how basic Slavic morphology/grammar works. For example, some Russians say "v ogorode" ("in the garden"), while others say "na ogorode". We don't say "v" somehow got "distorted"/morphed into "na". Some dialects simply choose to use a different, unrelated preposition in the same context.

Post by krzyk » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 2:37 PM UTC

medo-bear wrote: post #96

qwerty456127 wrote: post #88

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Russian just is not a great example of a Slavic language. It is a Slavic language in general yet way too different from the rest of them for a number of reasons.

> Russian just is not a great example of a Slavic language. i am not sure what you mean but russian is by far the biggest slavic language in terms of number of speakers. i also think it is the biggest in terms of number of litterary and academic works

Post by krzyk » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

wheelerof4te wrote: post #87

ajuc wrote: post #68

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The problem with panslavism is that Russians would have majority, and Russian states were almost always authoritharian and oppressive.

We had rather brutal monarchies in the West, too. Colonialism was not altruistic trip around the globe. Almost all former European monarchies, from England to Belgium, were authoritarian imperialistic countries.