Teffi - Skazochka - a leshii in a French forest

[Elena Ostrovskaya]

Dear Robert,

I think technically it's your first version, his hair was sticking out in
two tufts, just the original is very much along common spoken language lines
in terms of word order and vocabulary. You'll definitely have noticed that
yourself, just to be sure.

As for the seeing, I think it might be used instead of 'look' : he was so
funny you just couldn't look at him without bursting with laughter and yes,
those tickling throat and twitching legs are part of that laughter. And come
to think of it, 'twitch' per se has some neurologic sound that is not part
of дрыгать, but that may easily be the idiosyncrasy of my Russian ear.

For what it may be worth,
Elena Ostrovskaya.


2010/9/6 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>

> Thanks very much, Hugh and Sveta and others offline!
>
> I think that in England we may use the word hysteria/hysterical more
> casually than in the USA.  In a context like this, I don't myself hear it
> as
> a pychiatric diagnosis.  I certainly did not intend it as such.
>
> But I still don't quite know what to do with this sentence:
> Волосы надо лбом двумя мохрами взбиты, губы толстые.
>
> At present I have ' He had thick lips and two tufts of hair sticking up
> over
> his forehead.'
> OR
>  He had thick lips and two forelocks above his forehead.'
> Do these seem ok?
>
>

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