Russian Beauts

[John Schillinger]

George-
	Those are priceless!  Thanks for sharing them!

John


On Mar 17, 2007, at 12:03 PM, George Kalbouss wrote:

> 	Over the past 41 years, I have been saving well-intentioned  
> phrases and sentences
> written by undergraduates that simply went awry.  What with the  
> more serious linguistics,
> cultural, pedagogical and literary issues discussed in SEELANGS, I  
> thought people
> might enjoy these:
>
> 	The Siberians settled in inaccessible places.
>
> 	Two-demential icons are more realistic
>
> 	He hates the Poles from stealing the steps from them.
>
> 	When death comes to him he will have lost the desire to answer  
> unanswerable questions
> 	and pursue unattainable goals.
>
> 	In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" he took a common occurrence and  
> dragged it on for 40 pages.
>
> 	One daughter died a nebulous death while living at home.
>
> 	Sonia convincingly fights pressure throughout the novel to fall  
> apart at the seams.
>
> 	Illness is another tradition for Russian Orthodoxy.
>
> 	Gogol is overworded and could ramble on about one item and not  
> provide relevant
> 	data to the story like VCR instructions.
>
> 	She was raised by a jealous and everbearing widowed mother.
>
> And my favorite, from Crime and Punishment:
>
> 	Overcome by guilt,  Svidrigailov checked himself into a motel and  
> blew his brains out.
>
>
> George Kalbouss
>
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John Schillinger
Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University
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