well-endowed

[atacama at global.co.za]

Of course, don't let us be sexist,
a man can also be "stroinyi"
as well as a woman who can be 'stroinaya'.

It's not 'well-endowed', but merely 'well-put-together'
(well-proportioned).
(Neither is it 'well-built', which conjures up someone beefy
or pumped up with muscles).

We women know such things !

Vera Beljakova






 
Original Message:
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From: Peter Scotto pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:35:32 -0400
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] "well-endowed"


How about just "stroinaia" as a culturally appropriate and unforced-sounding
term. I rather like it because it picks up on English "built" - to my ear. 

A Russian colleague of mine suggests "khoroshaia figura" as non-offensive
and
colloquial. 

The rest,as my old conversation teacher - Anatolii Sapronov - used to say is
pure "anglosaksonstvo."

Peter Scotto
Department of Russian
Mount Holyoke College

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