Glukhar+modern day bard

[Alina Israeli]

There is a song by Alexander Rozenbaum: Глухари на  
токовище
http://poiskm.com/song/54424-Rozenbaum-Alexandr-Gluhari


On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Sentinel76 Astrakhan wrote:

> No, sorry, you got it backwards.  The bird is named this way because  
> it doesn't hear anything when it sings during the spring period  
> ("kak glukhar' na toku"), and hunters can simply walk up and clobber  
> it.  So the word is used to describe people that don't hear anything  
> besides themselves.
>
> Vadim
>
> -------------------------------------------------

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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