re.kushat'

[Alina Israeli]

>You can't tell to somebody:"eshte!",but :"kushajte" will be a polite form.

Strictly speaking you cannot say either one of these in a polite situation,
which is implied by the vy-form. Invitations should be either "proshu" or
"ugoshchajtes'". Orders, such as children camps, are a different matter.

Chukovskij who was a great proponent of "kushajte" (I remember him
advacating it when people like Uspenskij were against, although my memory
may not be exact, it was a very very long time ago, and I was quite young)
wrote:

"Babochka-krasavica, kushajte varen'e
Ili vam ne nravitsja nashe ugoshchen'e?"

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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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