Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACCORDING to my Webster's dictionary, the Serbo-Croatian language is a marriage of two immiscible languages, Serbian and Croatian, which still retain individual identities in the form of separate alphabets. Serbian words are written in the Cyrillic alphabet; Croatian words, in the Roman. Milorad Pavic, who is a Yugoslav poet, must be sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam...
Aside from the preliminary notes, with which the reader should begin, and the appendices and closing notes, with which the reader should conclude, the Dictionary, like any dictionary, has no fixed sequence. Most entries take the form of stories or legends, and individuals and topics that appear elsewhere in the dictionary are cross-referenced, both from one entry to another, by a system of coded signs, and in the index at the rear of the book...
...form alone, The Dictionary of the Khazars is revolutionary. It entertains the reader while forcing him to concentrate intensely. In addition, Pavic tells an allegory about the contradictions in language. His Khazars, who aspired to speak their own language with a foreign accent and who deliberately chose translators who made mistakes in the Khazar language, are painfully aware of the limits and possibilities of communication across boundaries of culture, gender, time and religion...
...decentralized and positive organizing rather than centralized and negative," said Professor Clyde Somers, a labor scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. "That's always been a model, but it has not been as widespread a form of practical organizing...
...goalie Mike O'Neill, an All-ECAC selectiontwo years ago, wishes to regain his form, he musthave better suport behind the blue line...