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[anne marie devlin]

Thanks for that.  It certainly makes more sense that космонавты refers to OMOH.  I will have to quiz my informant again re космонавты and a stupid person in a high position. As for жиды, the 16 year-old native speaker was convinced it was a short form adjective and simply a derivative of жадны - quite shocking.  It reminds me somewhat of a recent semantic change of the word 'gay' in British - and to a lesser extent - Irish English.  It's used by children and teenagers to mean 'bad' or 'undesirable'.  It seems that xenophobia is on the rise and rascist language is becoming normative n social network sites and the media. AM
 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:53:58 -0400
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
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Synonyms: брат, братан, брательник, братуха, брателло. Maybe some more. Does not necessarily mean 'brother'.
борцуха — a derogatory word for a person from the Caucasus or some other non-Slavic person who does wrestling.
http://yablor.ru/blogs/kakoy-on-borcuha/2404554

On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:44 PM, anne marie devlin wrote:братух-борцух
 Alina IsraeliAssociate Professor of RussianWLC, American University4400 Massachusetts Ave.Washington DC 20016(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076aisrael at american.edu
 
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