Sportsmen

[Hugh McLean]

I think an awful lot of sports terms were borrowed directly from 
English. I once had to give a paper in Russia involving boxing terms, 
and it was hard to pronounce them Cyrically: boks, boksyor, raund, nokaut.
> Mrs Garnett reflects the usage of her time (or perhaps a little before her time), but the example demonstrates how the meaning of both sportsman and спортсмен [sportsmen] has changed since the appearance of the latter in around 1859.  The question is: did the shift in meaning happen independently in the two languages or was there a re-borrowing, perhaps in the early years of the last century, when there was a strong British influence on the development of organised sport (as understood by Hugh Mclean's students) in Russia?
>
> John Dunn.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh McLean <hmclean at BERKELEY.EDU>
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:52:27 -0700
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Etymology of the words ???????, ??????,  ?????????
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> Re "sportsmen." I remember teaching Turgenev's Zapiski Oxotnika,
> translated by Mrs. Garnett as "A Sportsman's Sketches."  Students
> thought it would be about an athlete and were disappointed.
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> John Dunn
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