spootnik

[Richard Robin]

I am forced to retract my disparaging guess that no one here under 30 knows
what sputnik was, no matter how it's pronounced. My 15-year-old daughter
polled both her soccer team and her 10th grade advisory. Everyone knew!
(Everyone, she reported, used a short "u" for the word.) Okay... it's
a minuscule sample and skewed towards kids from upper middle class families.
But I didn't think *anyone *would know. I stand corrected.
-Rich Robin

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Melissa Smith <mtsmith02 at ysu.edu> wrote:

> JOKE.
>
>  I tell my students that there is a cause-and-effect link between my
> life and recent Russian Soviet history - Stalin died the year after I
> was born, my earliest memories was seeing the McCarthy hearings on my
> cousins' television,  and I started first grade the year Sputnik was
> launched. Irony was what kept me in the profession.
>
> Best wishes, Melissa Smith
>
>
> Michele A. Berdy wrote:
>
>
> >I'm a little slow tonight -- is this a joke or do you really believe
> this?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Melissa Smith" <mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU>
> >To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> >Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:23 AM
> >Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] spootnik
> >
> >
> >> It was anti-Soviet propaganda - diminishing the accomplishment by
> >> making it sound like it went "putt-putt."
> >>
> >
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> Youngstown State University
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Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-7081
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