face control

[John Dunn]

Thanks to colleagues for the comments on fejs kontrol'.  It seems that the
source is German Gesichtskontrolle, though whether the Russian is a
translation into English is a moot point, since, as Valery Belyanin has
demonstrated, fejs, as well as kontrol', is well enough established in
Russian.  I have, however, been muddying the linguistic waters by trying to
persuade my students casually to introduce the word into their English
conversation.

>Dear Hans! Russians may say:
>Do you pivo everyday (duju = pju. shutlivo o pive)
>Fajsom ob table. (o drake)
>Shutlivyj dialog: Which watc? Six clock. Such much?

Subscribers to the list with a mis-spent youth will recognise this as a
variation on a snatch of dialogue from the film 'Casablanca', though no
doubt the joke is even older.


to whom how. Ty sto
>tozhe v injaxe uchilsa?
>Oups. (imenno o-u-ps)
>Hi everybody! (privetstvije)
>You did it! On ih sdelal! Ja ego (ih) sdelaju!
>Vopros: Po inglishu spikaesh'?
>Gutten Morgen gutten Tug. trah po morde vot tak tak. (from German)
>chiao-cacao. (a la Italian)
>
>You may also find a lot in my "Zhivaja Rech' " (Belyanin, outenko Moscow
>1994.)
>Valery Belyanin. vbelyanin at mtu-net.ru,

Perhaps I could add an endorsement for 'Zhivaja rech' with a request for a
second, updated edition.

And finally could anyone tell me (off-list) whether an establishment
selling pizza in slices is known in North American English as a slice-bar.
I came across slajs bar/ slice bar (bilingually) on a Moscow pizzeria, but
have never seen the term anywhere else.

Thanks,

John Dunn.

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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