ethnic expressions

[charlesg]

          Some more ethnic expressions: in Bulgarian, japonska rabota
          means real good work, and bulgarska rabota means the
          opposite (a masochistic view).  In Serbo-Croatian, or at
          least Serbian, I've heard srpski posao for "all fouled up"
          (cf. bulgarska rabota above), and in German I've heard
          polnische Wirtschaft for the same thing.  Needless to say,
          I'm just reporting, not endorsing the views.
               Charles Gribble    (Gribble.3 at osu.edu)