When language freaks dream

[muckefuck]

Last night I dreamt I'd walked into some kind of jumble sale. It was mostly Christmas decorations and old books. But among the dog-eared childrens' classics, an unexpected treasure: Colloquial Kashubian. I think I squeed. Despite the name it had the classic mid-century "Teach Yourself" blue/yellow colour scheme (although badly faded with age); furthering the confusion, the publisher was neither TY Books or Routledge but someone I'd never heard of.

I set it aside to continue browsing, but failed to find anything else worth buying. When I went back to it, I made a crushing discovery: The book was only a publisher's dummy. Not only that, a mangled one so that the pages which were included weren't even fully legible. Heartbreaking! I had a lot more crazy dreams before getting up (e.g. talking my way into the quarters of an Orthodox bishop on a Russian oceangoing ship, crashing an Italian wedding with a female celebrant, etc.) but that's the one the really stayed with me.

Comments

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

Colloquial Kashubian

Wow. Some dream!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, what do you reckon this means:

"Kola laaka vellari"

It's an untranslated bit of lyric (they just put "kola laka vellari" in the English subtitles) from this Hindi movie song.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

That made me choke up. It really did.