Small folklore forms are language structures, that we are keeping in our mental language as independant unite: when one tells us the beginning of the proverb, we already know it's ending. That is why they are appropriate for different modifications: creating of the “new proverbs”, where the proverb is twisted in it’s funny version, and modifications made for commercial purpose. Copy-writers are using small folklore forms to create more memorable commercial. The material is collected from public media and everyday communication.
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V. Kurnik’s extensive self-taught activities included recording proverbs. He published them together with the “folk songs” he collected in Slovenska Bčela in 1852-1853, and in other newspapers from the second half of the 19th century. The treatise among others presents his temporarily lost, but later fortunately recovered handwritten collection of proverbs and identification of intellectual ownership. Fran Levstik mentions 4 notebooks of proverbs. The entries total 4411, but several proverbs are repeated.
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