//Hi Ilya! //
on *28.10.03* at *18:15:22* you wrote in the area *MOSCOW_OKLAHOMA*
a message to *Roman Lyubchak*
about *"Iron cirtain"*.

 IK>>> Actually,  the  "curtain"  began  to dissapear
since 1985, the
 IK>>> time, when the events  like "perestroyka", 
"glasnost",  etc. started
 IK>>> up, when Michael Gorbachev got the power.

 RL>> Just pay attention to the fact: Russian language get from English an
 RL>> unbelivable number of words, and English obtained from Russian just
 RL>> "soviet", "glasnost" and
"perestroyka". What do you think, why?

 IK>   It's your mistake -- russian  language  has  an
"unbelievable  number"
 IK> of "latin" words. English language too. "Latin"
words:  words  not only
 IK> in latin language, but also in latin transcription. That  is the reason,
 IK> why "latin" languages take a little number of  words from
the "cyrillic"
 IK> languages, so on. The latin transcription  is  similar for us, cyrillic
 IK> transcription is difficult for "latin".  And the arabic
or ?"ieroglif"?
 IK> (China,  Japan) transcriptions  with  their
"right-to-left"  rules  are
 IK> dificult for both "latin" and "cyrillic" groups.

Good idea. I didn`t think on it. But it seems it`s not the only one reason for
the issue.

 IK>   But i can say, that this "language"  question  is  not so simple.

Right! It`a a matter of culture. Is it possible that the number of foreign
words in a language correlates with a foreing culture`s influence?

Bye ..
               Roman Lyubchak


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