Translation query

[Kim Braithwaite]

Possibly the-AY-ter might work. In the prosto socioeconomic milieu of my 
boyhood that's the way we pronounced it until Miss Fidditch corrected us in 
the fifth grade, wielding her ruler across the knuckles. And there was a 
semi-popular song about a burlesque show ("Take it off!") whose meter 
required that pronunciation. Just a thought.

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator

"Good is better than Evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp)

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>  Hi,
>
> I am translating a review of an early futurist art exhibition for a 
> publication. One of the dismissive descriptions that the author is using 
> is "kiyater," which is the "prostonarodnoe" or criminal slang word for 
> "teatr" (theater). It is used ironically obviously, and such use of 
> "kiyater" can also be encountered in satirical pieces by Teffi or in the 
> actual or stylized speech of Gilyarovsky's criminal characters. What would 
> be a distorted English word that an uneducated person of that time (late 
> 19th-early 20th century) might have used?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Julia Trubikhina
>
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Russian Program Coordinator
> Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
> Montclair State University
> Dickson Hall, Room 138
> Montclair, NJ 07043
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