Innocent=not knowing

[Daf]

> However, watch out for the use of chert as an innocent expletive. There
are
> some Russians, especially religious ones, who are offended by it. (Vy
> pochemu chertykhayetes'?) We tend to think it innocent because the devil,
in
> English, is. So we translate and figure it's all right. In Russian, the
> devil ain't.
Hello Genevra,
I couldn't help responding to the above. One of my Welsh teachers taught us
the word for devil, but added, 'Don't ever let me hear that you have used
it.' Seems to have been effective advice as I seem now not to be able to
recall it<g>
Daf
Meirionnydd Languages
[web page- http://www.meirionnydd.force9.co.uk ]

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