Help Please : Man With Feminine Characteristics
Edward M Dumanis
dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU
Wed Sep 20 15:20:44 UTC 2006
How is about "chuvstvennyj muzhchina" in this discourse?
Sincerely,
Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Joshua Adetunji wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am preparing some slides for a translation class and i came up with
> an idea but need to verify something.
>
> Sometimes some men are accused or laughed at in English, as having a
> woman's attributes, hence we can hear things like a 'beautiful
> man'.This, more often than not, is a derogatory remark and it can be
> used to create some stylistic effects like humor.
>
> I was wondering if there was such term as 'beautiful man' in Russian
> language and culture to describe this typical reversal of character,
> and which could create the same stylistic effect.
>
> Obviously, 'krasiviy chilavek' would not only sink the stylistic
> effect, but also the meaning of the expression in context.Likewise,
> 'krasivaya zhenshina' will only convey the meaning but not the
> stylistic effect.
>
> I just need to know if there is an equivalent expression of this in
> Russian so i can better structure the class.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Joshua Adetunji
> Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
> University of Alberta
>
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