[lit-ideas] Re: Colloquial Russian: Nyet!
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:42:32 -0500
It's antiquated and I never even heard it. It makes me feel better that it's
regional. I gotta hit the old Wall Street Journal again, catch up with what's
going on in the world (they do a great job of covering everything because
everything involves money), maybe grub my neighbor's (not really). Failing
that, maybe I could remember to read Safire on Sundays if he's still around and
if the NYT isn't charging for it. Or watch Seinfeld I guess. I don't know
what it is about that show but I really dislike it.
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<<In all my life, I have never heard the expression, "How's it hanging?" >>
It's a little antiquated now and pretty rural, but a very frequent greeting in
Missouri. One of those things that started with adolescents using a phrase
they thought was cool, the phrase getting co-opted by adults who wanted to be
hip and happenin', which made the adolescents largely drop it.
Julie Krueger
========Original Message======== Subj:[lit-ideas] Re: Colloquial Russian: Nyet!
Date:2/7/06 3:31:50 P.M. Central Standard Time
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In all my life, I have never heard the expression, "How's it hanging?"
Hanging in there, hanging out, hanging around, let's hang, but never how's
it hanging? I admit to not being on top of slang, but how's it hanging
doesn't even sound English. So, Robert Paul, how's it hanging? I mean
your macrame potted plant. (That's how it would translate into Russian, it
would make no sense at all.) Maybe Andreas heard how's it hanging, hanging
as he does in California, which always starts the trends, the ones that
don't start in NYC.
> [Original Message]
> From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/7/2006 3:34:28 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Colloquial Russian: Nyet!
>
> "Kak dsela?" is nowhere near the American expression "How's it hanging?"
Were a
> Russian to ask the latter question, (s)he would say: "Kak eto byecit?" Of
> course, no Russian would understand the colloquialism embedded in that
> expression, unless (s)he had satellite TV and could access Seinfeld.
(We're a
> hopelessly romantic people, but our sexual imageries are typically
subdued by a
> sublime/transcendental sense of propriety and good taste.)
>
> Vladimir Gavrilov Mihaylovitch Okshevsky
> Minsk School of Translation Services And Food Preparation
>
>
>
> Quoting Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I'm watching the beginning of what may turn out to be a spy movie
> > on AMC.
> >
> > One character to another: Alexi, kak delya?
> >
> > Subtitle: Alexi, how's it hanging?
> >
> > Robert Paul
> > multi-tasking somewhere south of
> > Reed College
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