THE SITE IS DEVOTED to the standardization and development of the new written East Slavic language, Podlachian, which is spoken in several dialectal forms by some 50,000 people in the eastern region of Poland called Podlachia (and perhaps by as many as 500,000 people in Belarus and Ukraine, but this number needs to be confirmed yet).
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THE SITE IS DEVOTED to the standardization and development of the new written East Slavic language, Podlachian, which is spoken in several dialectal forms by some 50,000 people in the eastern region of Poland called Podlachia (and perhaps by as many as 500,000 people in Belarus and Ukraine, but this number needs to be confirmed yet).
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Word 'Climax'. A note for aspiring etymologists.
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UDDER and WATER
To the memory of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. This is just to bring attention to something very ‘Nostratic’ (far beyond ‘Indo-European’ languages —…
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Three one-hundredths of a second
(Somewhat prompted by watching the Olympics.) Why is that silly redundancy there in "three one-hundredths of a second"? Nobody says "two one-thirds…
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Word 'Climax'. A note for aspiring etymologists.
The English word climax has two seemingly incompatible meanings of "climax" and "orgasm". Yet, we should not forget that the word has not only a…
