gender in translation

[Kevin Moss]

I and many gay men across Central and Eastern Europe approve of  
gender play in all our inflected languages, in daily life as well as  
in fiction.

On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Alina Israeli wrote:

> The doublet жираф ‒ жирафа is rare and fortunate.
> When I want to praise my dog I often say "какой ты умный
> собак" with the fear that my kids would hear me and pick up the
> neologism instead of the correct one. Even though Russia has also
> masculine пёс, it has a different connotation and I cannot use it
> on my rather small bichon frisé.
>
> I think it's a good idea to create in fiction gender specific  
> variants.
>
> AI
>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:16 AM, Robert Orr wrote:
>
>> http://www.litportal.ru/genre6/author3279/read/page/1/book15045.html
>>
>>
>> I recently found this version of C.S. Lewis "the Last Battle"  on
>> line.
>> Shift, the Ape, is referred to as "обезьян", in order to
>> preserve the gender
>> in the original text. "обезьян", however, seems to be a very
>> rare  (I
>> hesitate to say "invented") form.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>>
>
> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> LFS, American University
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> Washington DC 20016
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> aisrael at american.edu
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