Toasts

[augerot]

If a non-expert can put a word in, I believe that there are a lot of people not fully communicating here about íà çäîðîâüå. As Mr. Lotoshko points out, a Russian will often reply to a toast with íà çäîðîâüå meaning "thanks for the good thoughts. Perhaps some of us non-natives pick up on this ðåïëèêà and chime in íà çäîðîâüå, thinking we are toasting instead of replying. Thus, we come away with the notion that íà çäîðîâüå is the original "to one's health" that çà çäîðîâüå or some other toast got started.

jim_______________________________________
augerot uw-slavic 353580 seattle, wa 98195
206-543-5484 fax 206-543-6009 <www.faculty.washington.edu/bigjim/>


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Lotoshko Yu.R. wrote:

:Na zdorovje  - et ne tost
:situacija vy chixnuli
:replika Na zdorovje
:otvet spasibo
:
:Esli govorit' o zastolje (tostax) - to ix mnozhestvo
:varjirijutsja ot socialnyx grup
:

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