Fw: [SEELANGS] United Nationsand

Oleg Pashuk pashuk at KNOLOGY.NET
Tue Aug 5 16:05:39 UTC 2008


Hi Vadim,

I think it IS a typo, and it should read "United Nations stand to enjoy 
unhindered access to refugees."

Cheers,

Oleg Pashuk
pashuk at knology.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] United Nationsand


> Vadim Besprozvany wrote:
>
>> Dear seelangers,
>>
>> I need to translate the word "Nationsand" into Russian. The context 
>> comes as follows: "United Nationsand to enjoy unhindered access to 
>> refugees" so the word doesn't look as a typo. I found some texts with 
>> the word on Google but the contexts were not very much telling. I  didn?t 
>> find this word in any dictionaries. I was only able to guess  that this 
>> is a synonym of the word ?Nations? but with no reference to  the name of 
>> United Nations Organization.
>> Of course, this is just a tour de force - I still have no somehow 
>> validated solution.
>
> I don't see anything in the above to indicate it's anything but a typo or 
> an editing error. If I had to devise a perfect example of a typo, I 
> couldn't do much better.
>
> Looking more closely, my best guess is that something was inadvertently 
> deleted between "Nations" and "and." My second best guess is that the 
> "and" was inserted by mistake.
>
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