Russkij mat
E. Wayles Browne
ewb2 at cornell.edu
Sat Feb 10 20:45:26 UTC 1996
>Very interesting anecdotes! Regarding prison slang, I recall that there is
>a "real" (non-samizdat (=izdatizdat!?)) Russian-English Dictionary of Prison
>Slang,
TITLE: Soviet prison camp speech; a survivor's glossary. Supplemented
by terms from the works of A. I. Solzenicyn. Compiled by
Meyer Galler and Harlan E. Marquess.
AUTHOR: Galler, Meyer.
PUBLISHED: [Madison] University of Wisconsin Press [1972]
SUBJECTS: Russian language--Slang--Dictionaries.
Prisoners--Soviet Union.
DESCRIPTION: 216 p. 23 cm.
NOTES: English and Russian.
Bibliography: p. 51-56.
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
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