another phrase

[Nola]

Maybe it's the Russian version of "fledglings". Fledglings is the word that US Air Force kids were called by their parents( as opposed to their Army counterparts who were affectionately called "brats")
Nola
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alina Israeli 
  To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
  Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:06 PM
  Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] another phrase


  I hate to tell you, but it does not look like a bird. Little  
  nightingales would be "solovushki". I'd like to know when this film  
  was made and where the school was located. The only related word I  
  can think of is Savël and now Savëla (http://slovonovo.ru/term/ 
  Савёла) for Savelovoskij vokzal and the area. Савёл is in  
  Большой словарь русского жаргона with the  
  meaning of the train station.

  >  I came across another interesting translation re: birds.  It was a  
  > documentary about Yuri Gargarin.  The teacher addressed the class  
  > of would-be astronauts with the phrase, 'Prevet, sovyolochki'.  It  
  > was transalated as 'Hi, eagles'.  I'm not fully aware of the  
  > implicature of nightingales and would welcome any comment.

  Alina Israeli
  Associate Professor of Russian
  LFS, American University
  4400 Massachusetts Ave.
  Washington DC 20016
  (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076
  aisrael at american.edu





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