Re: [Cz-L] Eminescu bookshop

Berti , the question was if you are a Rumanian, not if yo love the language.
  Do you count, dream , curse in Rumanian ?
   The advantages of knowing Rumanian are indisputable.
   Knowing Rumanian facilitates the knowledge of the English Latin roots.
    In the past I used to bet on English vocabulary knowledge with
    native Americans and Britons . I always won and the wondering
    losers used to ask me : "How do you know these terms ?
     How can we enrich our vocabulary ?"
       To this I said : " Study Rumanian !"
Hardy
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From: "berti glaubach" <bertigl_at_windowslive.com>
To: "Hardy Breier" <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>; <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Eminescu bookshop

>A propos Eminescu,
>
> This is just an excuse to write something more positive about the Rumanian
> period in Cernauti we were born into. It is true that at home we were
> educated
> to be "Altoesterreicher" but I can hardly deny the importance and impact
> Rumanian culture had on me. German was our maternal language - that
> previous
> even to our birth language that infiltrated mind and body, Lacan called it
> lalangue.
> But Rumanian came immediately after and in a certain way supplemented, at
> least in my
> case what should have been a complete rounded up by school and parents
> language.
> I think most of us were both positively and negatively influenced by this
> double
> languistery - it took away a perfect natural growing into one single
> language
> but gave us the benefit of at least 2 total different language structures
> to
> possess. Of course later came Russian and other languages (and many of us
> had
> at least some Idish very early with their mother's milk)- but grammar and
> most other
> knowledge came through Rumanian.
>
> And in a certain way I still might read Eminescu with nearly the same
> pleasure
> I enjoy Heine. Though I must confess to very rarely read one of them, and
> moderns like
> Celan causing me more headache than pleasure.
>
>
> Berti.

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