'kushat''

[Alina Israeli]

Natalia Samoilova wrote:
>I remember my teacher of stylistics at Moscow State University (1994)
>used to make fun of this word: in the 1 person it is as inappropriate as
>"moja supruga" (you can say "Kushajte, pozhalujsta!" (polite) or "Vasha
>supruga"
>(official), but you should say "ja em" or "moja zhena").
>But the situation could change.

It all goes back to the "meshchanstvo" question. "Kushat' chaj" with a
pinky stretched out.

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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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