> [SEELANGS] sub-titles

[George Kalbouss]

True story.

	Years ago, I was in the audience for a production of "Faust" at the
Kirov Theater.  The lead female singer was Latvian, and thus sang her
role in Latvian.  The others all sang in Russian.  In a crucial scene,
Mephistopheles was seen overhearing her prayer (in Latvian) -- a few
moments later, he told Faust what he overheard, but in Russian. I
was waiting for him to brag that, in addition to all of his other 
superpowers,
he was also a superb linguist.   It  was hard to keep a straight face 
witnessing this interchange.

George Kalbouss
The Ohio State University
On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Sarah Hurst wrote:

> It's nonsense if one is talking Hebrew, the other is replying in 
> Armenian, and they are both pretending to be speaking Kazakh.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Evgeny Steiner
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] > [SEELANGS] sub-titles
>
> "Really a nonsense language"???
> Sasha Baron-Cohen was talking good Hebrew.
>
> Evgeny Steiner
> Sainsbury Inst. for the Japanese Art
>

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