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Volume 3 - No. 5 - 2004


Language

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, shouldn't it follow that electricians might be delighted, musicians denoted, and models deposed?

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Anyone for Finnczech -  by Joe Sinclair

There have been many attempts over the years to provide, or invent, a language that would be universally accepted, in order to improve relationships between different national, cultural or ethnic peoples.

Finnish may seem a most unlikely candidate for this purpose.  Czech may seem equally inappropriate.  But them together and what have you got . . . as an old song once had it?

Let's examine the possibilities.

 

Relationships Between Languages -  by Sep Meyer

Having seen the tongue-in-cheek article about FinnCzech, Sep felt it incumbent upon him to provide a rather more serious description of the origins and reasons for the differences between the two tongues.