Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] tre-zhuravle

[June Farris]

>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:11:11 -0500
>To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures 
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>From: June Farris <jpf3 at uchicago.edu>
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] tre-zhuravle
>Cc: Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU
>
>This is drunken, fractured French from Leskov!
>
>
>Leskov, Nikolai. "Night Owls."  In: Leskov, Nikolai. Satirical Stories of 
>Nikolai Leskov. New York: Pegasus, 1969: 242-327.
>
>Night Owls translated by Hugh McLean.
>Chapter 6, p. 279:
>
>...And then he would drop all the men for a while and try talking French 
>to the cocotties in mourning. But he wasn't good at it; he kept putting in 
>"Come-on dear, come on dear," and they answered, "tray share tea" and 
>"tray John tea,".  He kept gurgling tur-tur-tur...
>
   ...A potom na minutu muzhchin brosit i k traurnym kukotkam 
po-frantsuzski... Da vse plokho u nego vykhodit, vse vstavliatet: 
"koman-dir"  da
koman-dir", a te emu "treshepete" da "tre-zhuravle" i veerami ego 
khlopaiut, a on tyr-tyr-tyr, i permete mua sortir...."

[comment dire, permettez-moi sortir]


>I think the women are trying to say "tres charmantes" or "tres enchantes" 
>, followed by "tres gentilles" !  Although the 3 editions of Polnoe 
>sobranie sochinenii Leskova that I looked at had notes to Chapter 6 that 
>gave the correct French for several other phrases, none addressed this 
>particular phrase!
>
>
>Best,
>June Farris
>
>
>
>
>
>At 10:09 AM 4/13/2007, you wrote:
>>I'll go out on a limb and suggest French "chou-rave" (kohlrabi)!
>>
>>---- Janneke van de Stadt <Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU> wrote:
>> > Dear Seelangers,
>> >
>> > A colleague asked me whether I had any idea what "tre-zhuravle" means
>> > and I am utterly stumped!
>> >
>> > Can anyone help us?
>> >
>> > Many thanks!
>> >
>> > Janneke
>> >
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>June Pachuta Farris
>Bibliographer for Slavic, East
>European and Eurasian Studies and
>Bibliographer for General Linguistics
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>University of Chicago
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June Pachuta Farris
Bibliographer for Slavic, East
European and Eurasian Studies and
Bibliographer for General Linguistics
Room 263 Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois  60637
jpf3 at uchicago.edu
1-773-702-8456 (phone)
1-773-702-6623 (fax) 

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