pol'ka-babochka
Goloviznin Konstantin
KottCoos at MAIL.RU
Mon Jun 25 14:59:15 UTC 2007
There is a phrase "He who pays also order a music". That's just a possible
form to express this idea but with polka-babochka. From another hand, the
word polka-babochka has no special meaning - it was let out by occasion -
IMHO. And finally, from the third side, this word just looks to be
tongue-sweet thing (то, что называется "для красного словца" ) for a
russianspeaking - IMHO too.
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From: "John Dunn" <J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK>
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Subject: [SEELANGS] pol'ka-babochka
> At a meeting held recently to discuss the (re-)writing of history
> President Putin is reported to have said:
>
> 'многие учебники пишут люди, которые работают за иностранные гранты. Так
> они исполняют польку-бабочку, которую заказывают те, кто платит' [mnogie
> uchebniki pishut ljudi, kotorye rabotajut za inostrannye granty. Tak oni
> ispolnjajut pol'ku-babochku, kotoruju zakazyvajut te, kto platit]
> (http://www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=7194)
>
> Leaving aside for the purposes of this list the merits of this
> observation, I weuld be grateful if someone could explain why,
> specifically, a pol'ka-babochka.
>
> John Dunn.
>
>
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