Griasti

[Hugh Olmsted]

Paul--
My apologies!
I shall suspend my earnest efforts to flail a dead venerable quadruped.
Hugh

On May 12, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

> Hugh Olmsted wrote:
>
> [fascinating backgrounder snipped]
>
>> ...
>> Back to our original context: "griasti" for dog-walking (Paul   
>> Gallagher's May 11 ""To invite the pack to go for a walk --   
>> Пойдем грясти!").  Does anybody know how this meaning  
>> was  perceived in the language of the time?  Was it really a  
>> neutral kind  of  walking?  Or was it grandeliquent, mock-serious  
>> talk for Man's  Best  Friend, the Venerable Quadruped?
>
> As I've said several times by now, this was a missed guess as I  
> tried to interpret the horrendous transliteration "gryachi" for  
> гулять on a web site whose author's first language proved to  
> be Japanese. Maria Dmytriyeva kindly pointed out the error, and I  
> would greatly appreciate if the rest of you would STOP repeating it  
> as if it were legitimate and trying to explain it. I've already  
> apologized, and my horse is dead, so you can stop beating it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- 
> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
> pbg translations, inc.
> "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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