Grammatical/Phraseological Query

[centrist centrist]

>
> I think I've heard Russians say things like "On
> uchilsia v vrachi," and the
> like.

I beg to differ: I am a native Russian speaker and the
correct phrase will be:
"On poshel vo vrachi" (though a bit too old fashioned,
perhaps)
or" On vyuchils'a na vracha".
>
> There's also a famous children's ditty "Ja poidu v
> pozharnye, pust' menja
> nauchit." (I've heard it's Mayakovsky. I know I
> should know, but I don't.)
>
Ja w pozhrnye pojdu, pust' men'a nauchat...

Again, very few people will say like this now. There
will be even some stylistic effect - an implication
that you allude to some old style, to someone
old-fashioned or provincial who would say this way.

Pavel

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