English calques and pseudo-anglicisms in Russian, Czech & Slovenian phraseology

[John Dunn]

A propos Heinrich Pfandl's reference to pseudo-anglicisms, I would be
grateful for reports of any sightings of the term fejs kontrol'/face
control (meaning 'door entry policy at a night-club, bar etc.') in any
language other than Russian (but including English).  I had always assumed
that this was a good example of a word made up in Russian out of (sort of)
English  elements, but have been reliably informed that the same term is
used in Greek, which would seem to suggest a different origin.

Please reply off-list.

John Dunn.


>I would like to collect some such phraseologic calques of English in
>Russian, Slovenian and Czech as well as pseudo-anglicisms in these
>languages and would be grateful to you, if you could send me such examples.
>Examples from other Slavic languages are also accepted. Please, reply to
>the list or off-list, as you prefer.
>
>HP
>
>

John Dunn
Department of Slavonic Languages
Hetherington Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8RS
Great Britain

Telephone (+44) 141 330-5591
Fax       (+44) 141 330-5593
e-mail    J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

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