Essential problem, или Почему Россия не Америка

[borislvin]

The essential problem is the fact that Russian obscenity is primarily derivational while English <...> obscenity is analytic.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~vfriedm/Articles/020Friedman79.pdf

(via ygam)

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

It's not a problem. It's a challenge.

[janez.livejournal.com]

Доктор, я ими наслаждаюсь!

[otkaznik.livejournal.com]

Наконец-то стали докапываться до фундаметальных вопросов. А то все по верхам...

[ppl.livejournal.com]

Я бы сильно усомнился в мудрости обучения "basic concepts of Russian obscenity to first-year students at a college level".

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

"In general, first-year Russian students are significantly more concerned with developing their own ability to express themselves obscenely in Russian than in learning to understand Russians expressing themselves obscenely."

[ashamrin.livejournal.com]

"In a lecture based on this list, it is suggested that the instructor combine an attitude of dry pedantry with on of light-hearted prurience, as this has proven to be most effective in communicating the material to students."

[ashamrin.livejournal.com]

А автор-то каков: Boris Sukitch Razvtraninkov.

[ygam.livejournal.com]

У него и про грузинский есть.