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[Valery Belyanin]

Хватит кудрить мозгиhttp://mk.ru/blogs/MK/2009/01/31/society/392270/
it is a regular practice to play with names in press
I do not think they read turgenev any more in Russia :(
Valery Belyanin
http://russianforyou.com/library/belyanin/1994/Belyanin_1994_Live_speech_kartochka.jpg



On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Ben Rifkin <brifkin at temple.edu> wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been accomplished
> by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally new use
> of a verb.  I¹d never seen this verb used before in a context in which
> there
> was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it was a
> very clever pun on the part of the article¹s author.  This is what made me
> think of Turgenev.
>
>

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