worth a grin...

[Keith M. Meyer-Blasing]

This thread reminded me of a paper on the Pushkin myth that I spell-checked
a year or so ago.  Fortunately I saved the e-mail I sent to some friends at
the time.  The following is cut from that:

Suggestions for Russian words and names: Karamzin gave me Kremlin, Karmic,
and Charmin. Pravda=panda. Bulgakov yielded bugaboo, bungalow, bugrake (??)
and Blake. Karamazov gave only Kalamazoo. The Brothers Kalamazoo just
doesn't have the same impact, does it? Parasha, the dead love of Evgenii in
"Mednii Vsadnik" could have been, appropriately, piranha or perish.
"Vykhod" was typhoid or yahoo. Pamiatnik yielded pimiento and pediatric.
Istina: fisting, ousting, or sitting. Pugachev was either purgative,
panache, or peaches. Shchedrin was saccharin. The suggestion for pevets (as
in tainstvennyi) was perverts.
Some of the non-Russian words yielded suggestions just as amusing:
contextualizing was split into contextual zing! Multivalence yielded
mulititalented and dystopian came back as dustpan. Andre Chenier could have
become Andre Chunkier, Cheesier, Cheekier, or Shinier.
And last but not least, d'Anthes came back tellingly as dandies, dates,
dainties, and deaths.
Technology: making your life better through humor.
Keith Meyer-Blasing

At 04:03 PM 10/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
>MS WORD once suggested that I replace Czeslaw (as in Milosz) with
>Coleslaw.
>
>
>George Gasyna
>U of T
>
>On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Marc L. Greenberg wrote:
>
>> MS Outlook's spell-checker prompts me to correct "Slavists" with "Sadists."
>> Clearly, there is a disaffected Slavist working in MS's Outlook division.
>> Marc L. Greenberg
>> University of Kansas


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Keith Meyer-Blasing
University of Wisconsin
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1439 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706
kmblasing at students.wisc.edu
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