Khrushchev's bury remark

[Emily Tall]

"I'll bring flowers to your funeral" is an expression I haven't heard (I'm a
native speaker of English) but it sounds very benign to me. I can imagine myself
saying it to a friend, so it really isn't an appropriate translation for the
Khrushchev remark, it seems to me. Emily Tall

Marta Sherwood-Pike wrote:

> Mistranslation isn't exactly the right term, but isn't this colloquial
> expression equivalent to the English "I'll bring flowers to your funeral,"
> meaning, in both cases, at the rate you're going, I/we expect to outlive
> you.  Martha Sherwood
>
> On Sat, 6 May 2000, Scott Petersen wrote:
>
> > Can anyone with this?
> >
> > I have seen many times that Khrushchev's remark that the Soviet Union would
> > bury the West was a mistranslation; that he actually said that the SU would
> > be at the grave of the West, i.e. would outlive the West. Lynn Visson gives
> > the Russian as "my vas poxoronim" (_From Russian into English_, Ardis
> > Press).
> >
> > Is there anywhere that gives more details about this incident? A fuller
> > quote? The context in which it was said?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Scott Petersen
> >
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