Fwd: [SEELANGS] Re: contemporary naval jargon
Hugh Olmsted
hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET
Sun Mar 1 04:45:43 UTC 2009
To Jane Costlow--
Dear Jane,
A couple of weeks ago I attempted to send out over SEELANGS an
answer to your question of Feb. 13 about reference works on Russian
obscenities. I received only a single response, from Will Ryan in
England, but have no confirmation that it actually went out to the
full list, or that you ever received it. Can you let me know whether
it came through?
Thanks,
Hugh Olmsted
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Hugh Olmsted <hugh_olmsted at comcast.net>
> Date: February 14, 2009 12:38:42 AM EST
> To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures
> list" <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] contemporary naval jargon
>
> Dear Jane,
>
> Below is a listing of some 67 printed dictionaries of Russian
> obscenities and other non-normative registers, jargons, and styles,
> published mostly up through the year 2000 -- the coverage after
> that is less complete. One of the titles represents an unpublished
> MS (Uspenskii/Kostsinskii). The list is an extract from a large
> database of reference sources for Russian studies which I've been
> compiling. The titles are listed po-ptich'emu in standard modified
> LC transliteration; after the recent discussion on problemy bukovok
> i kodirovki dazhe u rusistov I hope I don't have to apologize too
> much for this. You'll notice that there's one title devoted
> specifially to substandard military and militarized usage
> (Korovushkin, Slovar' russkogo voennogo zhargona), but plenty of
> the others should also be of use if they're available.
> Please let me know if the text doesn't come through legibly and
> usably.
> I would be very grateful for any suggestions for addenda or other
> modifications. Thanks!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Hugh Olmsted
>
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Jane Costlow wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>> A student of mine is working on a translation... the obscenities
>> are a REAL challenge. Do you have any suggestions on pertinent
>> reference works or other sources that might help? ...
>> Thanks,
>> Jane Costlow
>
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> SELECTED DICTIONARIES OF RUSSIAN SLANG, JARGON, OBSCENITIES.
> extracted from H.M. Olmsted's Database of Russian Reference Sources
> up to the year 2000.
>
> RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
> DICTIONARIES
> DICTIONARIES OF SPECIAL STYLES AND VOCABULARIES
> 1. OF SLANG, JARGON, ETC. ("Jargon" is typically focussed
> around a particular profession or other subculture, but in the
> dictionaries the distinction between jargon and general slang is
> not always observed)
>
> a. GENERAL (not specifically sub-standard)
>
> Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Slovar' russkogo argo :
> materialy 1980-1990-kh gg. : okolo 9000 slov, 3000 idiomaticheskikh
> vyrazhenii. 2. izd., perer. i dop. M. : Russkie slovari, 2000.
> 694 p.
>
> Ermakova, Ol'ga Pavlovna \ Slova, s kotorymi my vse vstrechalis' :
> tolkovyi slovar' russkogo obshchego zhargona / O.P. Ermakova, E.A.
> Zemskaia, R.I. Rozina ; pod obshchim rukovodstvom R.I. Rozinoi.
> M. : Azbukovnik, 1999. 273 p.
>
> Iuganov, Igor' \ Slovar' russkogo slenga : slengovye slova i
> vyrazheniia 60-90-kh godov / I. Iuganov, F. Iuganova ; pod red.
> A.N. Baranova. M. : Metatekst, 1997. 301 p.
> Earlier ed.: Russkii zhargon 60-90-kh godov: opyt
> slovaria / I. Iuganov, F. Iuganova. M.: 1994.
>
> Krestinsky, Maria M. \ Kratkii slovar' sovremennogo russkogo
> zhargona. Frankfurt/Main: Possev, 1965. 31 p.
>
> Mokienko, V. M. \ Bol'shoi slovar' russkogo zhargona. SPb. :
> Norint, 2000. 720 p.
>
> Nikol'skii, Valerii D. \ Dictionary of contemporary Russian slang /
> by UFO. M. : Panorama, 1993. 175 p.
>
> Shchuplov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
> sovremennoi tusovki / Aleksandr Shchuplov ; pri uchastii Tomasa
> Maklovski i Meri Kliain. M. : "Kolokol- Press", 1998. 542 p.
> (Ustami naroda)
>
> b. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH
>
> Nikolskii, Valerii D. \ Russian- English dictionary of contemporary
> slang: a guide to the living language of today / UFO (Valery
> Nikolski). 2d. ed. / rev. & enl. by James Davie. Nottingham:
> Bramcote Press, 1997. xiii, 139 p.
> Previous ed. published as Dictionary of contemporary
> Russian slang. M. :Panorama, 1993.
>
> c. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
>
> Shlyakhov, Vladimir \ Dictionary of Russian slang. Rev. ed.
> Hauppauge: N.Y.: Barron's; Leicester: D Services, 1999. 336 p.
>
> d. OF RECENT MOSCOW LIFE
>
> Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Slovar' moskovskogo argo:
> materialy 1980-1994 gg.: ok. 8,000 slov, 3,000 idiomaticheskikh
> vyrazhenii. M. : Russkie slovari, 1994. 699 p.
>
> McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon -- entsiklopediia
> moskovskoi tusovki : nauchnoe izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri
> Kliain, Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. : Academia, 1997. 2 v. in 1
> (Seriia "Sobesedniki angelov")
>
> e. OF MILITARY CULTURE
>
> Korovushkin, V. P. \ Slovar' russkogo voennogo zhargona :
> nestandartnaia leksika i frazeologiia vooruzhennykh sil i
> voenizirovannykh organizatsii Rossiiskoi Imperii, SSSR i Rossiiskoi
> Federatsii XVIII- XX vekov. Ekaterinburg : Izd-vo Ural'skogo un-
> ta, 2000. 371 p.
>
> f. OF YOUTH CULTURE
>
> Fain, Aleksandr \ Vse v kaif! / A. Fain, V. Lure. SPb. : Lena
> Production; A. Fain, V. Lure, 1991. 195, [4] p.
>
> Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Slovar' sovremennogo molodezhnogo
> zhargona : bolee 6000 zhargonizmov. M. : EKSMO, 2007. 666 p.
> Preceding edition: M. : EKSMO, 2006. 666 p.
>
> Nikitina, T. G. \ Tak govoriat molodezh': slovar' molodezhnogo
> slenga. Izd. 2-oe, ispr. i dop. SPb. : Folio-Press, 1998. 587 p.
> 1st ed., Tak govoriat molodezh': slovar' slenga, po
> materialam 70- 90-kh godov. M.: 1996.
>
> Shinkarenko, Iu. V. \ Bazargo: Zhargon ural'skikh podrostkov.
> M. : Iunpress, 1998. 85 p.
>
> Urban, K. \ Slovar' molodezhnogo zhargona : slova, vyrazheniia,
> klichki rok- zvezd, prozvishcha uchitelei : podrobnye
> ob"iasneniia, primery upotrebleniia : ok. 1600 edinits / sost. K.
> Urban ; red. I.A. Sternin. Voronezh : Maloe predpriiatie "Logos",
> 1992. 112 p.
> Walter, Harry \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo shkol'nogo i
> studencheskogo zhargona : okolo 5000 slov i vyrazhenii / Val'ter,
> Kharri. M. : AST, Astrel', Tranzitkniga, 2005. 360 p.
>
>
> g. WITH FOCUS ON SEXUAL THEMES
>
> McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
> seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei ot 8 mesiatsev do 18 let: nauchnoe
> izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri Kliain, Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. :
> OOO List N'iu, 1998. 259 p. (Seriia "Sobesedniki angelov")
> Bound inverted back/front to middle with the same
> compilers' : Zhargon- entsiklopediia seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei
> ot 18 do 80 let i dal'she. M. : OOO List N'iu, 1998.
>
> McLovsky, Thomas (Maklovski, Tomas) \ Zhargon- entsiklopediia
> seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei ot 18 do 80 let i dal'she : nauchnoe
> izdanie / Tomas Maklovski, Meri Kliain, Aleksandr Shchuplov. M. :
> OOO List N'iu, 1998. 313 p. (Seriia "Sobesedniki angelov")
> Bound inverted back/front to middle with the same
> compilers' Zhargon- entsiklopediia seksual'noi tusovki dlia detei
> ot 8 mesiatsev do 18 let: M. : OOO List N'iu, 1998.
>
> h. OF THE HIPPY MOVEMENT
>
> Rozhanskii, Fedor Ivanovich \ Sleng khippi: materialy k
> slovariu. SPb., Parizh : Izd-vo Evropeiskogo doma, 1992. 63 p.
>
> i. OF GAY SUBCULTURE
>
> Kozlovskii, Vladimir, \ Argo russkoi gomoseksual'noi subkul'tury :
> materialy k izucheniiu. Benson, Vt. : Chalidze Publications,
> 1983. 228 p.
>
> j. OF NARCOTICS SUBCULTURE
>
> Alferov, Iu. A. \ Zhargon i tatuirovki narkomanov v ITU.
> Domodedovo : RIPK rabotnikov OVD, 1992.
>
> Borokhov, Aleksandr Davydovich \ Kogda ves' mir na ostrie igly... :
> tatuirovki i zhargon narkomanov. SPb. : Rech', 2005. 328 p.
>
> Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Zhargon i tatuirovka narkomanov:
> kratkii slovar'- spravochnik. Nizhnii Novgorod: Nizhegorodskii
> gaumanitarnyi tsentr, 1996. 75 p.
> Miroshnichenko, L.D. \ Zhargon narkomanov : russkii : angliiskii :
> dvuiazychnyi slovar'. M. : Anakharsis, 2002. 159 p.
>
> Slovar' zhargona narkomana / Nigamedzianov, E. A., red. Ufa :
> Bashkirskii gos. un-t, 2004. 162 p.
>
>
> DICTIONARIES OF TABOO, OBSCENE, PRISON-CAMP & CRIMINAL SPEECH
>
> a. GENERAL DICTIONARIES
>
> Akhmetova, Tat'iana Vasil'evna \ Russkii mat: tolkovyi slovar'.
> M.: "KOLOKOL- PRESS," 2000. 520 p.; (Ustami naroda)
> Previous eds., 1996 (1st ed., 302 p.), 1997 (2d ed., 576 p.)
>
> Baldaev, Dantsik Sergeevich \ Slovar' blatnogo vorovskogo zhargona:
> v dvukh tomakh. M. : "Kampana", 1997. 2 v.
> Contents:- v.1. ot A do P.- v.2. ot R do Ia.
>
> Ben-Iakov, Bronia \ Slovar' Argo GULaga. Frankfurt/Main: Posev,
> 1982. 149 p.
>
> Blinov, Vladimir. \ Russkii narodnyi mat : tolkovyi slovar' / V.
> Blinov, F. Shevelev. Ekaterinburg : Ural. literator, 2002. 205 p.
>
> Bui, Vasilii \ Russkaia zavetnaia idiomatika : veselyi slovar'
> krylatykh vyrazhenii. M. : Pomovskii i partnery, 1995. 309 p.
>
> Bykov, Vladimir Borisovich \ Russkaia fenia: slovar' sovremennogo
> interzhargona asotsial'nykh elementov. München: Otto Sagner,
> 1992. 173 p. (Specimina philologiae Slavicae ; Bd. 94 )
>
> Bykov, Vladimir Borisovich \ Russkaia fenia. Smolensk: TRAST-
> IMAKOM, 1994. 222 p.
>
> Drummond, David Allan \ Dictionary of Russian obscenities.
> Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1979. 62 p.
>
> Dubiagin, Iurii Petrovich \ Tolkovyi slovar' ugolovnykh zhargonov /
> pod obshch. red. Iu. P. Dubiagina i A.G. Bronnikova; avtory Iu.P.
> Dubiagin (rukovoditel') ... [et al.] M. : SP Inter-Omnis ; SP
> Romos, 1991. 206 p.
>
> Dubiagina, O.P. \ Sovremennyi russkii zhargon ugolovnogo mira:
> Slovar'-spravochnik / Dubiagina, O.P. i G.F. Smirnov. M. :
> Iurisprudentsiia, 2001. 352 p.
> Elistratov, Vladimir Stanislavovich \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkogo
> slenga : svyshe 12 000 slov i vyrazhenii, argo, kinemalogos,
> zhargony M. : AST-Press kniga, 2007. 668 p.
>
> Preceding ed.: M. : AST-Press kniga, 2005. 668 p.
>
> Galler, Meyer \ Soviet prison camp speech: a survivor's glossary:
> supplemented by terms from the works of A.I. Solzenicyn. Madison,
> WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. 216 p.
>
> Galler, Meyer \ Soviet prison camp speech: a survivor's glossary :
> supplement. Hayward, CA.: Soviet Studies, 1977. 102 p.
>
> Grachev, Mikhail \ Iazyk iz mraka: blatnaia muzyka i fenia:
> slovar'. Nizhnii Novgorod: Izd-vo "Floks," 1992. 207 p.
>
> Horbach, Oleksa (Horbatsch, O.) \ Russische Gaunersprache / hrsg.
> u. eingel. von Olexa Horbach. Frankfurt/Main: Slav. Seminar,
> Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ. München: Kubon u. Sagner,
> 1978- v. (Specimina Philologiae Slavicae, Bd. 16)
>
> Ivanov, G. A. \ Khuligansko-blatnoi zhargonnyi slovar'.
> Donetsk : Magiia, 2006. 320 p.
>
> Khukka, Vladimir Semenovich \ Zhargon i abbreviatura tatuirovok
> prestupnogo mira : slovar'- spravochnik. Nizhnii Novgorod : GIPP
> "Nizhpoligraf", 1992. 232 p.
>
> Kozlovskii, Vladimir \ Sobranie russkikh vorovskikh slovarei v
> chetyrekh tomakh = A Collection of Russian thieves' dictionaries /
> sost. i primech. Vladimira Kozlovskogo. NY : Chalidze
> Publications, 1983. 4 v.
>
> Kramer, Alex A. \ Slovar' "nepriznannykh" slov i zhargona =
> Dictionary of "unrecognized" and slang words. Trenton:
> Scientific Russian Translating Service, 1966. 95 p.
>
> Kveselevich, D. I. (Dmitrii Ivanovich) \ Russko-angliiskii slovar'
> nenormativnoi leksiki : okolo 15,000 slov i 4,000
> frazeologicheskikh edinits = Dictionary of unconventional Russian :
> Russian-English / D.I. Kveselevich. M. : Astrel' : AST, 2002.
> 1112 p.
> Maruste, R. \ Prestupnaia subkul'tura v tatuirovkakh, zhestakh i v
> slenge. Tartu: TGU, 1988. 166 p.
>
> Basic historical and descriptive text in Estonian.
> Includes pictorial dictionary of tattoos widespread in Soviet
> criminal circulation, with interpretation of associated monograms,
> abbreviations, and other verbal elements in Russian and Estonian.
>
> Mokienko, Valerii Mikhailovich. \ Slovar' russkoi brani : matizmy,
> obstsenizmy, evfemizmy : 4400 slov i 4000 ustoichivykh sochetanii /
> V.M. Mokienko, T.G. Nikitina. SPb. : Norint, 2003. 446 p.
>
> Plutser-Sarno, Aleksei \ Bol'shoi slovar' mata / A. Plutser-Sarno ;
> vstup. st. A.D. Dulichenko, V.P. Rudneva. SPb. : Limbus Press,
> 2001- v.
> On leaf preceding t.p.: Plutser's dictionary.
> Title varies. Vol. 2: Materialy k slovariu russkogo mata.
> Contents: -- t. 1 (2001). Opyt postroeniia spravochno-
> bibliograficheskoi bazy dannykh leksicheskikh i frazzeologicheskikh
> znachenii slova "khui". -- v. 2 (2005). Opyt postroeniia spravochno-
> bibliograficheskoi bazy dannykh leksicheskikh i frazeologicheskikh
> znachenii slova "pizda".
>
> Polubinskii Veniamin Ivanovich \ Blatiaki i fenia: slovar'
> prestupnogo zhargona. M. : Ob"edinennaia redaktsiia MVD Rossii,
> 1997. 112 p.
>
> Russkii mat : tolkovyi slovar'. \ M. : ETS, 1998. 1 CD- ROM.
>
> Sidorov, Aleksandr \ Slovar' sovremennogo blatnogo i lagernogo
> zhargona : iuzhnaia fenia. Rostov-na-Donu : Germes, 1992. 176 p.
>
> Skachinskii, Aleksandr \ Slovar' blatnogo zhargona v SSSR. NY :
> Silver Age Press, 1982. 246 p.
>
> Slovar' tiuremno- lagerno- blatnogo zhargona: rechevoi i
> graficheskii portret sovetskoi tiur'my \ / avtory -sost. D.S.
> Baldaev, V.K. Belko, I.M. Isupov. M. : Kraia Moskvy, 1992. 525 p.
> In addition to the basic dictionary (p. 16-302), includes
> also: synonyms by thematic group, criminal proverbs and other
> expressions, an article by D.S. Likhachev on "Cherty pervobytnogo
> primitivizma vorovskoi rechi" with extensive bibliography,
> prisoners' card games, underground versions of Leningrad area
> toponyms, and a catalog of underworld tatoos.
>
> Slovar' vorovskogo iazyka : slova, vyrazheniia, zhesty,
> tatuirovki. \ [Tiumen'?] : Nilpo, 1991. 170 p.
>
> Slovnik korporativnogo zhargona predstavitelei prestupnogo mira i
> marginalov / Lomtev, A. G., red. Stavropol' :
> Stavropol'servisshkola, 2004. 318 p.
>
> Uspenskii, Kirill Vladimirovich (pseud. Kostsinskii, Kirill) \
> Slovar' russkoi nenormativnoi leksiki [MS, unpublished]
> A major lifetime project by the Leningrad army officer,
> writer, dissident, and prison camp survivor who emigrated to the
> U.S. in 1978, and died in 1984 leaving his project incomplete.
> There remains some hope that the materials he left will one day be
> published.
>
> Vorivoda, I. P. \ Sbornik zhargonnykh slov i vyrazhenii,
> upotrebliaemykh v ustnoi i pis'mennoi rechi prestupnym elementom.
> 2. izd. Alma-Ata : Tip. MVD KazSSR, 1971. [21] leaves
>
>
> b. BILINGUAL, ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
>
> Kudriavtsev, Aleksandr Iur'evich \ Anglo- russkii slovar'-
> spravochnik tabuizirovannoi leksiki i evfemizmov = ABC of dirty
> English: okolo 10000 slov i vyrazhenii / A.Iu. Kudriavtsev, G.D.
> Kuropatkin. M : "KOMT," 1993. 303 p.
>
> c. BILINGUAL, RUSSIAN-ENGLISH ENGLISH-RUSSIAN
>
> Dubiagin, Iurii Petrovich \ Kratkii anglo- russkii i russko-
> angliiskii slovar' ugolovnogo zhargona = Concise English- Russian
> and Russian- English dictionary of the underworld / Iu. P.
> Dubiagin, E.A. Teplitskii. M. : Terra, 1993. 280 p.
>
> d. MULTILINGUAL
>
> Mezhdunarodnyi slovar' nepristoinostei: putevoditel' po skabreznym
> slovam i neprilichnym vyrazheniiam v russkom, ital'ianskom,
> frantsuzskom, nemetskom, ispanskom, angliiskom iazykakh \ / pod
> red. Aleksandra Nikolaevicha Kokhteva. [s.l.]: Avis-Press,
> 1992. 91 p.
>
> e. ETYMOLOGICAL
>
> Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Istoriko- etimologicheskii
> slovar' vorovskogo zhargona / Grachev M.A., Mokienko V.M. SPb. :
> Folio- Press, 2000. 254 p. (Seriia "Kazhdomu obo vsem")
>
> Grachev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich \ Russkii zhargon : istoriko-
> etimologicheskii slovar' : proiskhozhdenie zhargonnykh slov i
> vyrazhenii, dostupnoe poiasnenie, primery iz tiuremnogo
> fol'klora. M. : AST-Press, 2008. 334 p.
>
>
> e. OF INVECTIVE & ABUSE
>
> Arbatskii, L. \ Tolkovyi slovar' russkoi brani. Izd-e 2-e,
> pererabotannoe i dopolnennoe. M. : Iauza, 2000. 428 p.
>
> Dulichenko, Liudmila V., \ Slovar' obidnykh slov : naimenovaniia
> lits s negativnym znacheniem. Tartu : Izd-vo Tartuskogo
> universiteta, 2000. 270 p.
>
> Kolesnikov, Nikolai Pavlovich \ Pole russkoi brani : slovar'
> brannykh slov i vyrazhenii v russkoi literature : ot N.S. Barkova i
> A.S. Pushkina do nashikh dnei / N.P. Kolesnikov, E.A. Kornilov.
> Rostov- na-Donu : Feniks, 1996. 380 p.
>
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