Fwd: [SEELANGS] : "Pots.."

Alina Israeli aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Sun Jan 6 16:27:19 UTC 2013


Reminds me of a very old joke:

Города‒побратимы (sister cities, why gender change?):  
Херсон и Потсдам.


On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:19 AM, Vitalii Cherednichenko wrote:

> Fwd: [SEELANGS] :   "Pots.."
>
>
> it was just way too close to the obscene Yiddish borrowing (as it  
> sounds).

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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