a possibly minority position

[Jerry Katsell]

God bless you, Michele and Kim,

I happened to be in Tbilisi in 1986 in our hotel bar where there was a
television broadcasting Gorbachev's speech after his meeting with Reagan
in Iceland. Gorby referred to Reagan as: "Meestir Prezeedent Ray Gun!" I
found it charming. Of course, Gorby is infamous in Russia for trotting
out his version of English "Who's who?": "Khoo--ees--khoo?"! 

Jerry Katsell

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kim Braithwaite
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:37 AM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] a possibly minority position

God bless you, Michele

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator
   "Good is better than Evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al
Capp)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michele A. Berdy" <maberdy at GMAIL.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] a possibly minority position


I have no idea what phonetic rendering of Medvedev will be easiest for 
English-speakers to pronounce. It's definitely a difficult name for 
non-Russian speakers. But I think that if people get the stress right
and 
most of the sounds -- that will be just fine. Because (in a small voice)
I 
don't think it's such a big deal. For 8 years Russians have called the
US 
president Mr Boosh. They call the first US president something like
Dzhyorch 
Vashinkton. (And don't forget that famous writer Gerbert Ooels.) That's
not 
disrespect or butchering the names -- it's just the best they can do
with 
their transliteration and phonetic systems. Somehow we have all survived

without a serious international incident.

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