Russian saying
Robert A. Rothstein
rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU
Mon Mar 3 02:55:30 UTC 2003
Alina Israeli wrote:
>Reminds me of a joke pretending to be a sign in an Odessa tramway
>(streetcar/trolley):
>VysovAjtes', vysovAjtes', budete imet' tot eshche vid.
Or a Polish joke about the early days of Israel, when there were
so many Polish-speaking immigrants that trolleys supposedly had a
warning sign in Polish: Wygladaj, wygladaj, bedziesz ladnie
wygladal!* (Vygliadyvai, vygliadyvai, budesh' krasivo vygliadet'!).
Bob Rothstein
*Or if your computer can read Polish: Wyglądaj, wyglądaj, będziesz
ładnie wyglądał.
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