Russian proverbs - near English equivalents?

[Stephanie Briggs]

Re the banya - are we talking of proverbs that were in use before Soviet
Russia? I wouldn't expect many Soviet proverbs to refer to God.

Stephanie

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On 25 July 2010 21:51, Melissa Smith <mtsmith02 at ysu.edu> wrote:

> Banya  proverb -- Cleanliness is next to Godliness?
>
> Melissa Smith
>
> On 7/22/10 6:40 AM, anne marie devlin wrote:
> > Possibly the nearest equivalent for the first is 'love conquers all';
> athough there is no mention of 'advice'.
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:52:14 +0400
> > > From: elena.ostrovskaya at GMAIL.COM
> > > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian proverbs - near English equivalents?
> > > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> > >
> > > Dear Zita,
> > > I am afraid I don't get what you / they mean by 'near equivalents'.
> > > Corresponding English proverbs? I'd be really surprised if there
> were one
> > > about banya. Or translation? Could you please clarify?
> > > Anyway, if you follow this link
> > > http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs_3.htm
> > >
> > > you'll find equivalents and literal translation to your 1st and 4rth
> > > proverbs.
> > > For the 2nd,
> > > I'd say something like: The beauty of a home is hospitality, not
> decoration
> > > Literally: The beauty of a house is its pies, not its corners.
> > >
> > > All that keeping in mind that 'krasny ugol' is not a red corner, or
> even a
> > > beautiful corner, since 'krasny' here means 'good', or 'beautiful',
> but a
> > > place of worship where the ikons are
> > >
> > >
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красный_угол<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB>
> <
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB
> >
> > > .
> > >
> > > Thus the same thing can be understood in the religious line.
> > >
> > > 3. The day you go to banya, you don't get older that day.
> > >
> > > Hope that helps.
> > > Elena Ostrovskaya
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > <http://masterrussian.com/proverbs/russian_proverbs_3.htm>You'll
> find the
> > > equivalen and translation to your 1st and 3rd sayings.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Zita Dabars <ZitaD at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank you for your comments.
> > > >
> > > > I failed to say that the transliterated version (for which I was
> not
> > > > sufficiently accurate) will never appear in the "Answer Key to Mir
> > > > russkikh." The
> > > > transliteration was used only in the case that the Cyrillic did
> not appear
> > > > in the mailing which I sent to SEELANGS.
> > > >
> > > > Zita Dabars
> > > >
> > > >
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