«Эрудит»

В дружественном ж²урнале зашел разговор об игре «Эрудит», и я вспомнил, как давным-давно, году в 2000-м, меня спрашивали из Шотландии:

Ah'm luekin tae fuish onythin ye micht ken aboot the speil o' wirds kent by "Scrabble" i' the Bulgarian leid. Ah've ettled tae seek ilkawey I can think o' oan the wab and havena diskivered the weeest pickle. D'ye ken the brodspeil yersel?

Я ответил:

Aye, ah dae -- but it isnae kent in Bulgaria, binna ane maks it for hissel. Monie a lang year syne ma mither an ah see'd some German fowk a-speilin it, an we fand it a braw thocht, sae we wrocht oorsels a wee Bulgarian version. We teuk the letter frequencies oot o a linguistic journal. But thair isnae naebody ense ah ken e'er speilt it. Ah kennae whitfor. Bulgarians are nae sae hyte for wird speils as fowk fae Britain, on the hale.

Дело было так. ( Read more... )