ne mozhno
Nataliya Kun
nataliya.kun at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 3 22:42:07 UTC 2011
The comedy routine you are talking about is the once famous "Низзя!"
by Polunin and his Litsedei.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUw8AOzguv4
2011/3/3 Emily Saunders <emilka at mac.com>:
> Wasn't their a comedy routine of two clowns sitting on a bench and one
> saying to the other нельзя and the other replying лья (or зя as it sounded
> to my ears when I heard it a loooong time ago)? I can't think of what to
> call it to find a video clip. Does anyone know?
>
> Emily Saunders
>
> 03.03.2011, в 6:39, Ashot Vardanyan написал(а):
>
>> It's as funny as the "l'zya" form used ironically or just as a joke for
>> "mozhno". Of course, "ne mozhno" is not a standard, nor is "l'zya" at all.
>> To
>> me, sounds something like "mayn't" or even"mightn't" in English which
>> sound
>> terrible, don't they?
>>
>> Ashot Vardanyan
>>
>>
>>
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>> Subject: [SEELANGS] ne mozhno
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>> Dear all,
>> one of my native speaker students used 'ne mozhno' as a response. I don't
>> think
>> I've come across that before and was always under the impression that it
>> wasn't
>> possible. Just wondering what your thoughts are on it.
>> Thanks
>> AM
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Nataliya Kun
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
kun at fas.harvard.edu
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