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

[Marina Brodskaya]

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On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:58 AM, "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM 
 > wrote:

> 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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