Fortochka

[Julianna Bores]

Translating форточка as "the quarter window" has been a satisfactory
translation in the past.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Lewis B. Sckolnick <info at runanywhere.com>wrote:

>  Fortchki are small fixed panes above doors and windows to allow light in.
> In newer versions they can open but in real life they are rarely opened. The
> ones I have are octangular.
>
>  In the U.S. we actually used to have форточки, not in apartments, but in
>> cars manufactured before air conditioning became standard equipment. Until
>> the mid-1960s, I guess, cars had a little triangular window on driver's
>> side. We always called that the vent window. Does that work?
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Seth Graham<s.graham at ssees.ucl.ac.uk
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
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