Translation query

[Helen Halva]

I agree with Mr. Braithwaite's suggestion of "the-AY-ter", but my 
experience was in the mid-20th century and I can't say whether the 
pronunciation was also pertinent to the early 20th c.

Helen Halva



At 12:16 PM 4/21/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>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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