"yellow house" in Russian

[Leslie Farmer]

In a message dated 6/13/03 1:18:51 AM, paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM writes:


> Very interesting. I think every area has its own slang terms for the
> local houses of detention, psychiatric hospitals, etc.
>
>

A couple of years ago I was researching for my Masters' in the CR and rented
a room with a Czech family in Praha 8 in a district known as Bohunice for the
psychiatric hospital there (Milena Jesenska went there deliberately to dry out
from her drug addiction.)   When I told people I was staying in "Bohunice"
it entailed quite a bit of explanation!

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