translation question

[Jack Kollmann]

That note was from me, Ned.  Would you like to know what else you have 
said, or shall we leave sleeping sheep lie?
Jack Kollmann


At 07:33 AM 3/23/2006, you wrote:
>Query for Kjetil Rå Hauge:
>
>The passage of time makes me increasingly less confident about what I may 
>once have said or done -- but was it really I who mentioned that 
>example?  No recollection.
>
>Perhaps the other Edward Louis Keenan, Department of Linguistics, 
>UCLA?  He, however, is known as Ted.
>
>Edward L. Keenan
>Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History
>Harvard University
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list 
>[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Kjetil Rå Hauge
>Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:12 AM
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] translation question
>
>
> >One of my favorite funny translations:  "wet
> >sheep" for "hydraulic ram" ("gidravlicheskii
> >taran") -- mentioned years ago by Ned Keenan.
>
>On the menu of the otherwise excellent La
>Bruschetta on boul. Shipchenski prohod in Sofia,
>not far from BAN, "zapecheni kartofi" is
>translated as "constipated potatoes"...
>--
>--- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo (on sabbatical in Sofia, Bulgaria)
>--- tel +359/29434244, mobile +359/899725606, fax +1/5084372444
>
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