"kaverznye voprosy" - options

[Timothy Sergay]

Dear Lily Alexander,

	If you're going to ask for translation help on a single word or a  
tiny collocation, then please be considerate enough to provide the  
fullest possible context for your item with your very first query, or  
you will just be wasting the time of anyone who tries to help you.  
"We tried it -- it's not the same" is of no help to consultants, and  
also irritating. I would think about "leading questions," but again,  
what do I know? "Sinuous question" appears as a solution to  
"kaverznyi [izvilistyi] vopros" on a worksheet on translating  
Ulitskaya's "Bron'ka" for a Notre Dame course (http://www.slavdom.com/ 
courses/pslit/index.php?lang=en&parent=104). But I find "sinuous  
question" strange, myself, and googling for that collocation results  
in only one vaguely native anglophone token, if you discount a  
handful of "sinuous question MARK," which is a different idea.

Tim Sergay

On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Lily Alexander wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> But trick questions - typically on a test or exam - mean that they  
> lead not where you think they lead. We tried it - it is not the same.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Re: voice - may work - thanks
>
> Glushchenko, Alexei A. wrote:
>
>>> Lily Alexander
>>>
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to find an equivalent to "kaverznye voprosy" - which  
>>> are intentionally playful, provoking, teasing, and controversial  
>>> <...>
>>>
>> ===
>> You don't think "trick question" would do the trick?
>>
>>
>>> My 2nd question is how to find the best translation of  
>>> "prokurennyi golos kak u zeka," - speaking of a Stalin camp  
>>> survivor, a lady and a professor.
>>>
>> ===
>> chain-smoking (cracked/gruff/gravelly/tobacco-roughened) voice of  
>> a Gulag prisoner?
>>
>> Alexei Glushchenko
>> Ru<>En
>>
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