TIME quoting Putin

[imwitty]

Sure, Victor...

Enjoy the bird:

*http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1495411

It also has a lot of "golden eggs" for different tastes (;'-)))
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Lora
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: TIME quoting Putin
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>   Do you care to share the link or just want us to go on a wild goose
> chase?
>
>     VS-)
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> On 9/8/2010 9:53 PM, imwitty wrote:
> >   Paul,
> >
> > You are right: I just found the original interview in the Russian
> newspaper
> > "Kommersant". I don't know Chinese, but German and Spanish translations
> are
> > almost correct comparing to the translation provided by "Time" in its
> > "Verbatim" section -- which definitely isn't verbatim.
> >
> > I said "almost", because all three translations use the word "head"
> (Kopf,
> > cabeza). Putin actually used "bashka" (the stress on the second "a") like
> > you would use "mug" instead of "face." It is the common parlance
> equivalent
> > of the Russian word "golova" -- "head" -- (the stress on "a".)
> >
> > Probably in this case "head" might be replaced with "bean"?
> >
> > Also, I personally would use instead of "truncheon" something like
> "club",
> > "bat", or "billy club", but I don't work for "Time"... (;'-)))
> >
> > Lora
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