AW: [SEELANGS] Grossman question

[Peitlova Katarina]

или под влиянием украинского говора?
например слово <уличный> будет poulicny.добавляется префикс.-по-
Katarina
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> Olga Meerson wrote:
>
>> Nonethelss, even though Katarina is right about her comment, the
>> change, from the normal Russian kvartal'nyj, to the
>> abnormal--usually, purely temporal Russian POkvartal'nyj, calls for
>> attention. Pokvartal'nyj upolnomochennyj would mean someone who
>> writes quarterly denunciations. The fact that this title refers to a
>> collaborator with the Nazis suggests a certain associative link
>> between such Soviet informers and Nazi collaborators. Whether this
>> hint of a link is translatable is another matter. All I can hope for
>> is that Robert can do the impossible, precisely about such hints of
>> links--having worked with him on Platonov, I now fully trust his
>> genius for doing the impossible.
>
> Can we rule out the possibility that the prefix was added in error?
>
> Errors have happened before, even in published works.
>
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