how best to deal with "deiatel'"?
Oleg Pashuk
pashuk at KNOLOGY.NET
Mon Jul 28 18:17:26 UTC 2008
Margarita,
I would translate "kul'turnyi deiatel'" as "a cultural figure," or maybe
simply "an intellectual."
Cheers,
Oleg Pashuk
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> Dear colleagues,
> Has anyone come up with an effective way to render "deiatel'" -- I'm
> particularly plagued by the phrases "kul'turnyi deiatel'" and "Deiateli
> Khudozhestvennogo Slova" (vis-a-vis Russian cultural life in the 1920s) --
> into English? For the second phrase, I've experimented with
> "promoters"/"supporters" and don't absolutely hate it, but I haven't found
> anything that works for the first (I've already rejected "activist" [too
> edgy], "figure" [too static], "agent" [too contemporarily anthropological
> and/or Cold War espionage-ical]). The Bol'shoi tolkovovyi slovar'
> russkogo
> iazyka published by the RAN Institut lingvisticheskikh issledovanii
> (2002),
> even kind of fudges, by using a word with the same root in the
> definition:
> "Litso, proiavivshee sebia v kakoi-libo oblasti obshchestvennoi
> deiatel'nosti." (deiatelnost' - rabota, zaniatie kogo-libo v kokoi-libo
> oblasti).
>
> Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions!
>
> Margarita
>
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