Loans and calques in Russian spam

[Wilson Gray]

_Mega-shou_ na Borodinskom pole!

"Mega-Show on Borodino Field!"

The Battle of Borodino - _Bitva na Borodinskom pole_ - was the major
battle of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Lermontov's [< Learmont's]
poem, "Borodino," set to music, was/is? the anthem / marching-song of
the Russian Division of the Army Language School.

IUbileinoe _super-shou_ na Borodinskom pole!

"Memorial Super-show on Borodino Field!"

_Tury_ odnogo dnia

"One-day tours"

Speshite! Mesta ogranicheny!

"Hurry! Places [are] limited!"

My WAG is that the second sentence is a calque on

"Seating is limited!"

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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