Cat burglars and a helpful web-site

[John Dunn]

In the 1990s, as many of you will remember, Russian television was in the habit of showing foreign films with as single voice-over translation.   For the most part this was very irritating, but there was the occasional redeeming moment, such as this, from an otherwise forgotten American film:

A: What do you do?
B: I'm a cat burglar.
 
Or, as the voice-over translation put it: Я краду кошек.

While contemplating this and related matters, I came across a web-site, which some members of the list may find interesting: 
http://www.slovonovo.ru/
It is a dictionary which, as far as I can tell, pretty much does what it says on the tin.

 John Dunn.
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Chandler [kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM]
Sent: 05 February 2011 21:15
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] a footnote to fortochka

I think the phrase "cat burglar" would be accurate enough for quite a lot of purposes!

R.

On 5 Feb 2011, at 17:43, Steve Marder wrote:

>> Following the long thread on possible translations for fortochka, I  came
>> across the word fortochniki - burglars who break into your house via the
>> fortochka. I was wondering if anyone would like to rise to the challenge
>> of finding a suitable translation.
>> AM




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