VMs: language chemistry

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

Hi everybody in the labyrinth!

About how different languages mix themselves in local dialects? If there are 
Russian (Slavic, Indoeuropean) and some of the Finno-Ugric languages, then the 
Indo-European roots often tend to move into the (VMS-class) labyrinth of 
Finno-Ugric grammar. Btw, once there, they could be pretty hard to find again.

What I told about mixed Russian/Finno-Ugric, happens often in northern Russia. 
The things come more difficult in southeast (more than 2000km from Estonia), 
where strong Turco-Tataric influence exixts or southwest (Baltic roots added). 
To tell the truth - I think it's possible to get some truly bad mix in such a 
way.

MV

PS
One really funny observation in this chemical field I had some 20 years ago: a 
Russian student just told something to girls using regular Russian grammar + 
probably nonsense roots. You guess, the speech looked somehow frivolous... 
but please don't ask me to try it! I probably cant do it in Estonian and my 
Russian/any other language is not good enough for it

PPS
All this is of course not dso directly VMS-related. But somehow I think, this 
could be the direction to go, the approach to take.

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