[SEELA NGS] [SEEL A NGS] The Г in ГУМ

[anne marie devlin]

The krasnyi ugolok I'm referring to is not the icon corner of old but the communist corner.  As a student in the late 80's our hostels and institutes had small rooms with busts, posters etc of Lenin, Marx and Engels and were called Krasnyi urolki.  What we are talking about is the dynamic nature of language and how it portrays the socio/economic/political realities of the day.  so, the idea of a religious corner may (not) be foreign to today's students in Russia, but the communist corner may be.

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> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23:31 -0400
> From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] [SEELA NGS] The Г in ГУМ
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> 
> >imagine institutes and workplaces no longer have a krasnyi ugalok. 
> > How many 20 year old Russians would even know what it is?
> 
> I thought krasnyi ugolok was also one pf the terms used for the icon 
> corner of the room/house. If so, 20-year old Russians nowadays would 
> know THAT.
> 
> Terms with "krasnyi" long predate whatever their Soviet-era usage was.
> 
> I imagine Alina's point was that the change in GUM interests mostly us 
> intellectual types, while "ignorance" of the change in the BP acronym 
> (allegedly no longer "British" Petroleum even though we all know that 
> was exactly what its name was) seems to set politicos and diplomats on 
> edge. And heavens, no, I am NOT making the point that politicos and 
> diplomats are better than us, just louder.
> 
> I don't see why her comment is not relevant, especially if her point 
> was that there are even more tricky acronym changes afoot.
> -FR
> 
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