Chernobyl documentary wins Oscar

[Valery Belyanin]

Hello Uladzimir,
That is what I call linguistic shock:
when an unknown word in a foreign language reminds a word in native one.
Thus Russian _horosho_ turns into "horror show", etc.
http://www.textology.ru/belyanin/bel_shok.html
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Best regards,
Valery Belyanin, editor of www.textology.ru


Friday, March 05, 2004, 1:04:35 PM, you wrote:
UK> Btw, someone wrote in a comment to my blog entry
UK> * http://www.livejournal.com/users/rydel23/245810.html
UK> that when in her Oscar acceptance speech deLeo said:
UK> "Dr. William Novick also saves the lives of children in Belarus and all
UK> over the world with the International Children's Heart Foundation"
UK> And the subtitles on the TV screen actually said:
UK> "Dr. William Novick also saves the lives of children in Bella Rouse and
UK> all over the world with the International Children's Heart Foundation."
UK> Bella Rouse. Damn. That's a beautiful name. And where the heck is that
UK> place?
UK> Regards,
UK> U.K. aka Rydel
UK> http://blog.rydel.net/

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