Russkij mat

[Yggdrasil]

> Very interesting anecdotes!  Regarding prison slang, I recall that there is
> a "real" (non-samizdat (=izdatizdat!?)) Russian-English Dictionary of Prison
> Slang, published sometime in the 1970s, I believe.  I can't recall the
> publisher or exact title, but perhaps someone out there does.  Otherwise, a
> trip to a decent university library should turn it up.  We had it in the UC
> Berkeley Slavic Dpt. Library.  Maybe Keith Goering, or some other kind UCB
> soul could pluck it off the shelf and post the biblio data?

yes, i remember this...  it's on the shelf at ball state library in
muncie, IN...  they have no russian lang courses, but i was a student
at the academy on campus, which does offer russian...  it was quite
an interesting book, to say the least...

:)
--ygg