ethnic expressions

[Oscar E Swan]

and, in the same spirit, in Polish Prusak (Prussian) means bedbug, and (a
favorite of mine) czeski film (a Czech movie) means something totally
incomprehensible.

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Oscar E. Swan   Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning   Univ. of Pittsburgh  15260
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On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, charlesg wrote:

>           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)