Translation questions
Pangloss Publishing
candide at MAIL.IO.COM
Mon Apr 30 11:54:06 UTC 2001
Dear Colleagues,
Many thanks for your help with the Platonov translation queries of a
few weeks ago. I have a few last minute mysteries of vocabulary and
again beg your assistance. Some of these are Platonovisms; I get the
general drift but would like to know what, if any, the skewed sense
of the nonstandard usage seems to be. The last three are Soviet
jargon for places and entities.
Again, thank you all for your indulgence.
Jane Chamberlain
MA candidate, University of Texas at Austin
ÔÓÛýÚ¸Òþ pochukhat'sia (Seems to be something like 'fool around'.)
ÙÛÎýÌ' fuliugan' (used as an epithet)
ÏÂÓÌÓ¯ý mekhonosha (fur-ball? Used as an epithet -- for a bearded man?)
ÓÍÓýÎÓÍ okovalok (used as an epithet)
äýÒÌýþ ÉÂÓËþ [Krasnaia Geroiia] award in one edition is äýÒÌýþ
ÉÂÓËþ [Krasnaiia Georgiia] in an earlier one.
òýËÍ Û Ú·þ ý·ÓÚýÂÚ (What might 'sharik' refer to?)
Ó·ÓÚÓÍ khobotok (My dictionary gives proboscis, but this is used to
mean 'gun barrel', I think. Is this normal slang?)
ÔÓýÁÛÏÂýÚ¸ ÒÓ¯ýÂÂÒþ podrazumevat' sovershaiushchiesa (This
is used for "perceive what is going on." Does it have a special
skewed sense?)
èÛÓ Ó·ÒËÊËýÎÒþ ÍýÌÂÎþËË Ë Ìý·ÎýÎ. Pukhov obsizhivalsia v
kantseliarii i nabliodal. (Does obsizhivalsia carry a special sense?)
í ÚÛÚ ÂÎÛ ÔÓÓÔÎÞÍÛ ÔËÛÏýÎ. Ty tut tseluiu podopleku pridumal.
The general sense of this is "You've done a lot more than you needed
to. Is podopleky a malapropism? If so, what was the target expression?
ëÚýËÍ ÔÎÌÛÎ ËÍÓ¯ÂÚÓÏ ÌýÛÊÛ. Starik pliunul rikoshetom naruzhy.
(How would you translate the last two words?)
Gubchok
Gubprodkom
Revkom
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