TRANSLATION PROBLEMS: REPLIES

[Hunter, Robert (Psychology)]

I don't know if the high school and university exchange students from the
Novgorod Oblast are bul'varnaja pressa readers, avid or otherwise, but the
girls have told me that they use the term "bojfrend"

Robert Hunter

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From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Sent: 4/11/2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS: REPLIES

Avid readers of Russia's bul'varnaja pressa will know that the Russian
for
boyfriend is 'bojfrend'.

John Dunn.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yoshimasa Tsuji [mailto:yamato at YT.CACHE.WASEDA.AC.JP]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:24 AM
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS: REPLIES
>
>
>Hello,
>   I have noticed something. I have heard "drug" being used in the
>sense of a "boyfriend". Perhaps, it may be a new usage.
>   I have often heard the term "v grazhdanskom brake" meaning they
>live separately but have steady relations without the registration.
>   At first I thought it meant a marriage outside the church, but
>found myself mistaken.
>
>Cheers,
>Tsuji
>
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John Dunn
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