> Re: [SEELANGS] > [SEELANGS] Russian expression

[Ashot Vardanyan]

I agree -- it's highly unlikely, and we'd better know more context, at least the paragraph in which the sentence is used. However, re: sleeping vs eating, I remember my father telling me that sometimes their only dream was to get just a little sleep. He was in the infantry in the war. But I remember my military experience of the early 80s as well: sometimes, after the march we were really unable to eat the cold svyornutuyu (I couldn't find the English word for that) kasha...

Yes, we do need more context.

Ashot

03/16 14:31 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM> wrote:
> It's highly unlikely that hungry soldiers would have refused food simply
> because it was poor quality.  Really we need a lot more context to
> make
> sense of this.
> 
> R.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > My guess is there could be two explanations: either the quality
> of the meals
> > was bad -- cold, vapid, hard, etc., or the soldiers were so
> tired after a
> > battle, march, etc., that they were unable to wake up and eat
> anything.
> >  
> > I would translate this sentence so:
> > 
> > "Since sll this [the food] was delivered in the night / at
> night, the soldiers
> > couldn't eat the porridge if they tried."
> > 
> > Ashot Vardanyan,
> > University of Iowa
> >  
> > 03/15 23:45 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET> wrote:
> >> Can anyone assist me with translating the following phrase,
> which describes
> >> conditions at the front during WWII:
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> ‰œ”‘¡◊×Å ‹‘œ ◊”£ Œœfiÿ¿,
> ‘¡À fi‘œ À¡€¡ … ◊ “œ‘ Œ≈ Ã≈⁄á.
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> He's saying the food was delivered at night, so did the
> kasha not
> >> even make
> >> it into the soldiers' mouths, and if not, what is he
> implying,
> >> perhaps it
> >> was bad by the time they woke up, or does he mean they
> gulped the
> >> kasha down
> >> quickly, or something else?
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> Sarah Hurst
> >> 
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