"to go"

[Renee Stillings]

"s soboi" is definitely correct...I order food to go in Moscow several times
a month and I've heard no other variation yet...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren A. BILLINGS" <billingl at SPOT.COLORADO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: "to go"


> I concur with Russian _s soboi_ (= _s soboj_), although I'm not that
> familiar with the recent fast-food lingo in Russia.  This was certainly
the
> way to say it back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
>
> --Loren Billings <loren.billings at colorado.edu>
>
> >Czech: "s(e) sebou"
> >Russian: "s soboi" (I think...)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> >[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Denis Crnkovic
> >Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2000 9:24 AM
> >To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> >Subject: "to go"
> >
> >Here is a questions for the company at large, something less important to
> >think about at the busiest time of the year: Since I do not frequent fast
> >food enterpirses either here or abroad I was at a loss to answer my
> >students' questions about the fast food lexicon in Russia, Hungary and
the
> >Czech Rep. Can anyone tell me what the formula is for "to go" (as in "2
> >cheeseburgers and a large fries, to go") in Russian, Czech and Hungarian?
> >
> >With thanks in advance,
> >
> >Denis C.
> >
> >----------------------------
> >Denis Crnkovic, PhD
> >Associate Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures/ Russian
> >Director of Russian Language & Area Studies
> >Gustavus Adolphus College
> >Saint Peter, Minnesota 56082
> >
> >507-933-7389
> >507-933-6066 [fax]
> >cronk at gac.edu
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