FW: Monument to Letter "Yo"

[Katz, Michael]

And the Slavic philologist Boris Norman (Minsk) once wrote a splendid spoof
of scholarly papers on the interjection "Tfu!"

Michael Katz

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> From:         Jules Levin
> Reply To:     Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> Sent:         Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:56 PM
> To:   SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Monument to Letter "Yo"
>
> At 10:30 AM 11/15/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Dear SEELANGers:
> >
> >It's not often that a Russian city puts up a monument to a letter in
> >the alphabet, but Ulyanovsk has done just that.  See
> >
> >http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/10/29/003.html
> >
> This item reminds me of a 16-line poem published in Soglasie, a local (Los
> Angeles) 1st wave emigre publication in the 50's, that I discovered as a
> student (the editor was Yuriy Kanakov--former White artillery officer,
> Turkic languages specialist (trained at a pre-revolutionary officer
> school),  and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the LA Co. Museum
> (where I met him as a HS junior scientist...).
> The poem was a tribute to the letter jat'--full of 1st wave Weltschmerz
> and
> nostalgia--not to mention irony.
> I copied it out by hand, and have been searching my files for it ever
> since.  When I find it--I'm sure I have it somewhere--I'll send it to
> SEELANGS.
> Jules Levin
>
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