[lit-ideas] Re: Colloquial Russian: Nyet!
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:34:28 -0330
"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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