Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] Equivalent to "corny"? Any suggestions?

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Melissa Smith wrote:

>  I think "corny" doesn't have as negative overtones as the options here 
> suggest.  It is closer to клише, провиннциальный - I think of someone 
> with cornsilk in their hair, a "hayseed."
> 
> As Nellie Forbush sings in "South Pacific": "I'm as corny as Kansas in 
> August" - there must be a Russian pop-culture equivalent!  

I've also seen/heard "corny" used in a sense very close to "sappy" -- 
sickeningly sweet, implausibly romantic, overdramatic like theater 
makeup compared to everyday makeup. In that sense it does contrast with 
the jaded big-city ways of doing things.

-- 
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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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