Foreign equivalents of 'logrolling'
Kjetil Rå Hauge
K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO
Sat Oct 19 22:02:04 UTC 2002
>The Oxford dictionary translates the term as "politika 'ty mne -ja
>tebe'," which smells like a custom coinage. Would anyone know of
>another term? I would also be interested in equivalents from other
>Slavic languages.
A common term in Bulgarian is shurobadzhanachestvo, from shurej
'brother-in-law: wife's brother' and badzhanak 'brother-in-law:
wife's sister's brother'.
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