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[Melissa Smith]

It may not work in translation, but it provides an EXCELLENT option for 
any Slavist having a hard time coming up with a new password: S7GNOMOV. 

Melissa Smith

On 8/25/11 8:49 PM, Valentino, Russell wrote:
> The winning joke, "I needed a password eight characters long so I 
picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," actually not only doesn't 
work in Russian, it doesn't work in many other languages either. I'm 
curious to know of any other languages that conflate character in the 
sense of "symbol" and character in the sense of "personage" (as in a 
fictional character) the way English does. Are there any?
> 
> Russell Valentino
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dunn
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:47 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> Anyone with an interest in the problems of translating humour (or what 
passes for it in Edinburgh at Festival time) might want to read the 
following:
> 
> http://www.newsru.com/cinema/25aug2011/fringejoke.html
> 
> It would seem that one of the examples defeated them altogether.  
> 
> John Dunn.
> 
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
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Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
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