Dostoevsky question.

[wolandusa at BELLSOUTH.NET]

Read Gabriel Choreb's novel: HOGTOWN (Master i Marmeladov in English translation). (Relevant to your question...)
    Robert Mann

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> Hello Everyone! 
> 
> I am posting this query for a colleague who is teaching a course in semiotics: 
> 
> "We are reading Voloshinov's "Toward a Marxist philosophy of language" in my 
> semiotics course and he cites a passage from Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer in 
> which Dostoevsky talks about a group of drunks whose conversation consists 
> entirely of one obscene word repeated with different intonations and therefore 
> different meanings. Does anyone happen to know what particular obscene word 
> this was? Or has it remained "unprintable"?" 
> 
> If you know or have any ideas as to what this word might be,please reply 
> off-list to me at tpolowy at email.arizona.edu 
> 
> Thank you! 
> 
> Teresa Polowy, Head 
> Russian and Slavic Studies 
> University of Arizona 
> 
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