SEELANGS Digest - 23 Feb 2006 to 24 Feb 2006 - Special issue (#2006-65)

[Paul B. Gallagher]

STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM wrote:

> I would be grateful if any SEELANGER[s] out there could throw some
> light on the following dark place. ...
> 
> 2) Does Russian have any tradiiton of formations like "Spoonerism" or
> "Malapropism" where a particular idiosyncracy or eccentricity  of an
> individual, real or fictional, is caricatured. If so, how far does
> this go back.

It does have a solid tradition of using "-shchina" for this purpose, but 
that can also refer to the period or the cultural environment and not 
simply to the practices. How would people here understand the neologism 
"Putinshchina" if I coined it?

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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