Re: VMs: azhor shtsheey valsch vbrey

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> languages and dialects. Some >50 years ago,
> valsch would have been the Dutch spelling of
> a word now written as 'vals'. This does _not_ mean
> 'wrong', but rather 'fake' (as in counterfeit
> money).


absolutely right (unvalsch?)

as we probably know, the modern binary logic of our desktop computers was 
created in Preussen. And in timeline, this work is much closer to VMS, than to 
us.

So, the Germans have maybe the European patent for the idea of 
"fake", as antagonist of "faire" or "good" 
and this word is quite a common one in many languages.
In Estonian I can see without reflection many words,
that seem to be independant "loans" of it:
valsk, võlts - fake, humbug, swindle
valesti - in wrong way
vallas-  -  extramarital, illigitimate

and the situation in many other languages in central & eastern Europe is 
probably the same.

So, the "valsch" could belong to a pretty handful of languages...

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