retreat

[Kenneth Brostrom]

Indeed.  And I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned what
must be generally known: that this term is used in business and
academia as well, most commonly, I suppose, in the phrase "planning
retreat."   We are planning a "retreat" for our students of Russian
in which they will be with native speakers and will speak only
Russian for a day or two.  (At least we hope we can arrange to do
this.)  And my academic department has done this many times.

Cheers,
Ken Brostrom

At 1:30 PM -0500 11/8/01, Svitlana Kobets wrote:
>It was very interesting to learn about Catholic/Western Christian
>connotations of the term 'retreat'. I just want to add one little detail.
>Nowadays in the Western World it's far from uniquely Christian practice.
>There are Yoga retreats, Buddhist meditation retreats etc. They are
>collective practices that do not have any parallels in Orthodox
>Christianity. It looks like Russian might as well make use of another
>English borrowing ;)
>
>Best,
>Svitlana
--
Kenneth Brostrom
Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Dept. of German and Slavic Studies
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
phone: (313) 577-6238
email: kenneth.brostrom at wayne.edu
fax: (313) 577-3266

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