ne mozhno

[Psy Ling]

there is also childishlike word mona (мона) = mozhno (можно) which is used in 
chats. What is the 

origin? Just childish?
 Psy Ling




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From: Nataliya Kun <nataliya.kun at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Thu, March 3, 2011 5:42:07 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] ne mozhno

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
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: anne marie devlin <anne_mariedevlin at HOTMAIL.COM>
>> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>> Sent: Thu, March 3, 2011 4:07:14 AM
>> Subject: [SEELANGS] ne mozhno
>>
>> 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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