Teffi: advice about how to avoid being seasick.

[Hugh Olmsted]

Robert and Will and Paul; et al. 
Righto. Always good to establish one's reasonableness. Of which I for one had no doubt. 
And speaking of which, it was some gremlin in the editing software as changed my "помещик" to "помощник". Let's see if it comes through this time. 
Cheers to all, 
Hugh 

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From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM> 
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:46:01 PM 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Teffi: advice about how to avoid being seasick. 

william ryan wrote: 

> Hugh and Robert, 
> I think British and colonial napes are the same - certainly two British 
> dictionaries of Russian, the Oxford Russian Dictionary and the Penguin 
> Russian Dictionary, give only "back of the head" for "zatylok" (and 
> "zagrivok" for nape of the neck).... 

It isn't hard to find dictionaries that give both senses for затылок: 
<http://translate.academic.ru/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA/ru/en/> 
or <http://translate.academic.ru/затылок/ru/en/>, though properly "nape" 
ought to be always загривок, and if you enter "nape" you get only 
загривок. If you click "толкования" from there, the monolingual 
dictionaries are all consistent in giving the "occiput" sense; only the 
Russian-English dictionaries give "nape" as an alternative. 

So I agree with your position, but the question was a reasonable one to ask. 

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. 
-- 
Paul B. Gallagher 
pbg translations, inc. 
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" 
http://pbg-translations.com 

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