{SPAM?} Re: [SEELANGS] translation from 1920s (Vertov)

[Elizabeth Neckes 08]

I think the problem here is the fact that the comma between two words - in a title - is always awkward in English. Maybe just banish the comma to Siberia all together...


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-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Neckes 08
Sent: Wed 6/11/2008 7:13 PM
To: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
Subject: RE: {SPAM?}  Re: [SEELANGS] translation from 1920s (Vertov)
 
I think the problem here is the fact that the comma between two words - in a title - is always awkward in English. Maybe just banish the comma to Siberia all together...


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-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Richter, Laurence Raymond
Sent: Wed 6/11/2008 5:32 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: {SPAM?}  Re: [SEELANGS] translation from 1920s (Vertov)
 
I like "Get a Move On, Soviet!"


Laurence R. Richter
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Prof Steven P Hill [s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:48 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] translation from 1920s (Vertov)

Dear colleagues with a knack for Russ.-Engl. translation:

Dziga Vertov, the arty ("formalist") director of Soviet documentary films
(including "Man with the Movie Camera"), made one film in 1926-'27
entitled "Shagai, Soviet!"

Literal and quasi-literal translations somehow sound a bit awkward
in English.  "Stride, Soviet"?  "Pace, Soviet"?  "Step, Soviet"?  "March,
Soviet"?  Etc.

Finally the following possibility occurs to me:
"STEP IT UP, SOVIET!"

Does that work any better in English than the more literal renditions?

Gratefully,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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