Putin's language/funny programme

[Alina Israeli]

That very well may be, but while Vladimir Vladimorovich left us some  
expressions akin to those that Khrushchev bestowed upon us (мочить в  
сортире and как раб на галерах being the prime examples; Khrushchev  
left us кузькину мать, я, дяденька, еще пороть буду and the like):  
http://www.commcenter.ru/press/articles/2008_05_08.html, Chernomyrdin  
left us a wealth of incredible, funny and sad at the same time  
sayings. People and publications reprint them all the time. Only  
Krylov can compete with him in quantity, and nobody can compete with  
him in quality. His greatest saying Хотели как лучше, а получилось  
как всегда will live forever.

Have a laugh for yourself:
http://aphorism-list.com/autors.php? 
page=chernomyrdin&tkautors=chernomyrdin
http://citataua.livejournal.com/46486.html
http://www.oratorica.ru/materials_tsr/material_tsr/&id_obj_ex=77
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1% 
8B%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0% 
A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1% 
87#.D0.90.D1.84.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D0.B7.D0.BC.D1.8B

On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Alexandra Smith wrote:

>
> According to Verbitskaya's recent assessment of the state of  
> Russian language today in public sphere, Putin's language is much  
> more sophisticated than that of Chernomyrdin. See her interview  
> here: http://www.5-tv.ru/video/505170/
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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