User:Paul Pieniezny/Prlwytzkofsky

Prlwytzkofsky is a written variant of the Dutch language, based on the idiolect of the Polish-German Professor Prlwytzkofsky, as featured in the Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch) and Oliver B. Bumble (Olivier B. Bommel in Dutch) series by Marten Toonder. This "Spraak" (Prlwytzkofsky for "language") is becoming more and more popular on Dutch political and linguistic forums and is influencing Dutch political jargon.

Distinctive Characteristics of the Prlwytzkofsky language

The language is characterised by an abundance of composite words built on the combination of words literally translated from German, but in a small number of cases including a Slavic word: Instortingsbeleg (from German "Einzahlungsbeleg" and Dutch "Stortingsbewijs", the combination, however, rather suggests "collapse siege"). A Slavic influence is obvious in Prlwytzkofsky calling his assistant "Irkoetsk" ("short-statured assistant, who always connects electrical circuits in the wrong way", but of course also referring to the Siberian town).

Straight German Influence

Clearest examples of Germanization are: - the use of the German masculine gender article "Der" (but since all words not of the female sex but ending in a consonant take "Der" as their article, this also hides a Slavic substratum) - a limited number of isolated words like "gans" (whole), "tas" (cup), words with the -iker ending rather than the Dutch -icus. These words are actually in normal use in the variant of the Dutch language spoken in Flanders.

Germanisms

- overhoofd (Dutch actually uses überhaupt)

- manschap (team, troops, from German Mannschaft. Dutch only uses this word in the plural)

- intiemgeil ("intimately randy")

- kraftwagen

Slavisms

- besjnemtsing (sexual insult, possibly meaning "degermanization" and claimed to be Serbo-Croat in origin)

- proeksel (sexual insult, meaning unknown but claimed to be Serbo-Croat)

- frlwortzln (possibly meaning to dismember by a process involving eradication, claimed to be influenced by Serbo-Croat)

Miscellaneous Influences

Bami Geuring (noodles, based on Nazi Geuring, from the Indonesian rice dish called Nasi Goreng)