Posted by lesia on July 26, 2000 at 18:26:44:
In Reply to: MOVA posted by GEORGE DUBYCKY on July 23, 2000 at 09:26:33:
My language isn't very pure too. But I try do it perfect. As I try to study English. And perfect it. Not, the perfect knowledge of English don't do me English, but if you want to speak a language, you must try to do it properly. And Ukranian is your language, and there are a literature language. Study it! You have it more easy in USA than I. Why not? Study, if you want, also Hutzuls and Lemko dialects. But spanglish never will be a language, also surgik isn't. Any. Not Russian, not Ukrain.
In the other way - the Gaelic is rather difficult to learn. Ukrain isn't so! So everybody who knows Slavic language, can learn it without a problem. It isn't a proud of Irish people that they don't know Gaelic, it's a tragedy of they. Why you want the same tragedy for your people?
: Are the Irish any less Irish because 99% of them
: do not know or speak Gaelic?
: They are Celts nevertheless.
: Too many of our Ukrainian bretheren in Ukraine
: do not speak Ukrainian but rather a mixture
: of Ruskie and Ukie.
: We Ukrainians in the USA also do not speak pure
: Ukie,whatever it is. Is the Ukie language of
: the Hutzuls the same as the Lemkos?
: Language is always changing. Who can say that
: only one dialect is the one and only true Ukrainian?