Tsar'-devitsa again

[Boris Dralyuk]

Dear All,

I sent the following response to Mr. Chandler alone.  (I'm new to the list, 
and hadn't quite figured out how these things work!)  Here's what I wrote:

I believe our Tsarevich's negation is a kind of emphasis -- colorful 
grammar,
indeed.  He simply means "What a great honour (has been granted me)!"  It's
not quite litotes, but if we 'restore' an elided "малая", we get "Что мне не
(малая) честь!"

Yours,
Boris Dralyuk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Marder" <asured at VERIZON.NET>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Tsar'-devitsa again


>>   Could you give a bit more context? chest' is also a verb "to read;
>> consider", and ne chest' could be for nechest', "shame".
>> Will
>
> Let me jump in with this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/26ytjmz
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