gender in translation

[John Dunn]

There is, alas, nothing new under the sun, and the Словарь русского языка XVIII в. (Vol. 15, p. 226, published only in 2005) records one occurrence of the masculine, albeit in the form облезьян.  It is my impression, which others may be able to confirm or otherwise,  that the back-formation of masculines from feminine nouns in the manner described by Olga Bukhina and Alina Israeli is not all that unusual in language play.

John Dunn.

  
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Olga Bukhina [obukhina at ACLS.ORG]
Sent: 28 July 2010 16:14
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As an author of this translation (first published by the Variant-Dva Slona in 1991), I can vouch that it is an invented word, for the purpose of this very translation. The only other use I could see will be some children's rhyme, draznilka.

This website, alas, did not bother to mention a translator.

Olga Bukhina
obukhina at acls.org

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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:16 AM
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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?

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