"Sistema" [Was: Pushkin pronunciation question]

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Curtis Ford wrote:

> www.gramma.ru touches on this question with a bit of humor - you can
> find their comments at
>
> http://subscribe.ru/archive/job.education.likbez/200401/18175508.html
>
          On the same page referred to by Curtis Ford one can find the
results of a competition for humorous etymologies, among which is the
following:

??????? - ??????? ???????? ????? ? ??????? "Playboy" (??????? ??????);
???????? ? ??????? (????? ????????); ????????? ?????? ???? ? ?????
(??????? ???????)

Sistema - glavnaia siuzhetnaia liniia v zhurnale "Playboy" (Natal'ia
Titova); kartinki v Pleiboe (Elena Kanygina); volnuiushchaia muzhchin
tema o biuste (Glukhovoa Liudmila).



Fortunately I learned from my teacher Morris Halle that in a Russian
consonant cluster a dental consonant (such as s) assimilates to the
following palatalized dental (such as t); my knowledge of Russian
informal anatomical terminology came later.

Bob Rothstein



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