The Secretary and the Reset Button (A case for promoting U.S. Russian language study)

[David Borgmeyer]

SEELANGtsy,

All politics aside, does it strike anyone else, given the not-so-distant
history of the Cold War, that the U.S. Secretary of State giving the Russians a
big, red button to push, regardless of what it says, is a little ill-conceived?Best,


DB



> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:48:57 -0800
> From: donna.seifer at COMCAST.NET
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The Secretary and the Reset Button (A case for promoting U.S. Russian language study)
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> 1. In August 1990 I heard Condi Rice say a few words in Russian in welcoming
> Anatoly Sobchak and wife Ludmila Narusova to the White House.  Condi was
> then an aide to Bush '41 and was about to give the newly elected mayor of
> Leningrad a tour. As an overextended volunteer escort interpreter, I thought
> I might get a break, but when Sobchak replied to her in Russian, she turned
> to me for interpretation and thus the tour began.
> 
> Donna Seifer
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/7/09 7:28 AM, "Alina Israeli" <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > 1. Has anyone heard Condi Rice say even a word in Russian?
> > 
> > 2. The article that is having so much fun with the blunder (and I
> > thought those were the thing of the past, Carter's past, when his
> > interpreter in Poland confused different word of 'love'), so this
> > article has its own mistake: поместила на первой странице фото красной
> > кнопкой,
> > 
> > Alina Israeli
> > 
> > Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> >> Rolf Hellebust wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Well, she should've checked with Condi Rice -- though this is just a
> >>> typo for "perezagruzka".
> >> 
> >> I would've been sorely tempted by "сброс," and it seems I wasn't the
> >> only one:
> >> <http://www.mignews.com/news/society/world/070309_103801_28470.html>
> >> 
> >> But what really amazes me -- see the photo -- is that someone at State
> >> thought Russian was written with the Roman alphabet. How ignorant is
> >> that!?
> >> 
> >> They were definitely overcharged for this translation.
> >> 
> > 
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