postal workers with guns

[Sara Stefani]

Isn't the -ova- stem productive and used to form new verbs that enter
the language, eg, organizovat', fotografirovat', etc?

So I would vote for pochtovat'. ha!


Quoting Kern Lunde <kdlunde62 at HOTMAIL.COM>:

> Okay, Okay, I can't resist...  I'm not able to answer that question,
> but a
> seemingly obvious linguistic question is screaming to be asked:  When
> the
> inevitable happens, what will be the Russian equivalent for 'going
> postal'??
>
> Kern Lunde
> Bloomington, IN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lynne debenedette" <lynne_debenedette at BROWN.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:32 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] postal workers with guns
>
>
> >A question related to the recent decision to issue certain of
> Russia's
> > postal workers "sluzhebnoe oruzhie" in the form of 9 mm pistols,
> mace,
> > etc.:
> > Clearly one of the main reasons behind the decision is Russian
> pensions,
> > which are vulnerable to theft. My question is really about the
> pensions
> > themselves:  if you're a pensioner, what exactly comes in the
> mail?
> > --
> > Lynne deBenedette
> > Sr. Lecturer in Russian
> > Dept. of Slavic Languages
> > Brown University
> > Providence RI 02912
> > email: lynne_debenedette at brown.edu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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