face control

[Alina Israeli]

John Dingley wrote:

>In German one says: "Gesichtkontrolle". So it seems that Russian
>"fejs kontrol'" could be an English translation of the German,
>but done by the Russians. I have never heard "face control"
>in English in the sense of "identification check" or any other
>sense for that matter.

But in Russian "lico" means 'face' as well as 'person', and in slang
"lichnost'" which is 'person' is used for 'face'.

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016

aisrael at american.edu

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