exiting the stage

Tue Apr 22 04:33:10 UTC 2003

>A question of Russian idiomatic usage:  "ujti so stseny" vs. "sojti so
>stseny" with a human subject.

"ujti so sceny" means a deliberate departure, "sojti so sceny" means
waning, becoming irrelevant.

Greta Garbo "ushla so sceny" (in both senses) at age 36, Gurchenko at some
point "soshla so sceny" to her great regret.

Politics is good. Speaking of annivesaries: Jospin ushel so sceny, Giscard
d'Estaing soshel so sceny (even though he is occasionally on TV).

AI

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Alina Israeli
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Washington, DC 20016

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