Soviet slogan "Dayosh!"
Oleksandr Spirin
oleksandr.spirin at YMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 5 18:31:35 UTC 2014
Dear Mr. Paul Gallagher,
in reply to your query I would like to offer you an excerpt
from:
D.I.
Kveselevich & V.P. Sasina RUSSIAN-ENGLISH DICTINARY OF INTERJECTIONS: Approx. 1,000 units. – Moscow: Astrel, AST, 2001. – P. 110.
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4. Даёшь прост. Употр. как призыв к штурму, атаке,
ударной работе и т.п. herewecome!, herewego!
Наш поезд всё катит и катит,
С дороги его не свернёшь,
И ночью горит на плакате
воскресшее слово – ‘Даёшь!’
- Я. Смеляков
Our train
rushes onward and onward,
Every night
till its journey is done,
The poster shall blaze with its slogan
revived from
the past: ‘Here we come!’
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With kind regards,
Oleksandr Spirin
translator
Kharkiv, Ukraine
oleksandr.spirin at ymail.com
On Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:09 PM, Paul B. Gallagher <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM> wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good translation?
Despite the second-person grammatical form, it seems to have the force
of an exhortation; several Russians have told me it feels like "let's
[do such-and-such]!" But to me as an outsider, it comes across more as a
demand for performance by the listener alone than as a call for joint
performance by speaker and listener.
Thanks.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com
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