[lit-ideas] Re: Colloquial Russian: Nyet!
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:31:22 -0500
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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