Grossman - Mama - teryat' v vese
Charles Mills
bowrudder at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jan 1 16:00:19 UTC 2010
In Czech, ves can be village. Could it be as simple as that?
On 1/1/10, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> The following is from the story 'Mama'. The story was probably written in
> 1960, but this section is set in the mid- or late-1950s.
>
> Говорили, что в домах отдыха некоторые девушки позволяют себе лишнее,
> гуляют по ночам, теряют в весе, а в мужских комнатах народ
> пьянствует, не
> соблюдает мертвый час, режется в карты.
>
> I am not sure how literally to understand 'teryayut v vese'.
>
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