Equivalent to "corny"? Any suggestions?

[anne marie devlin]

A quick check on the much-maligned google translate will give platitudinous and flimsy as definitions of пошлый which seem in line with Nabokov's description and which therefore could relate to corny

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> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:45:50 +0100
> From: j.dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Equivalent to "corny"? Any suggestions?
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> I wouldn't disagree with any of this, but if you take Z.E. Aleksandrova's Slovar' sinonimov russkogo jazyka (my copy was published by Sovetskaja entsiklopedija in 1968, but there may be other editions) and look up банальный [banal'nyj], you will be offered seventeen suggestions, several of which may be appropriate. Curiously, if you look up пошлый [pošlyj], you are offered only вульгарный [vul'garnyj] and a cross-reference to непристойный [nepristojnyj], neither of which is helpful here.
> 
> John Dunn.
> 
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Shafaremlp [A.Shafarenko at HERTS.AC.UK]
> Sent: 26 July 2010 13:15
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Equivalent to "corny"? Any suggestions?
> 
> Although "corny" corresponds to the Russian word "banal'nyj" as in "a corny
> movie"
> banal'nyj film, translation can hardly ever be word-to-word. There is a very
> appropriate Russian word: poshlyj, which is so difficult to render precisely
> in English, but which is so very appropriate in the suggested context. I
> refer the interested reader to Nabokov's well known example of poshlost' (a
> blond lad swimming daily with two swans in the pond beneath his beloved's
> balcony ...) as well as the extensive critical writings on the subject.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alex
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