Re: Russian 'Mat'

From: Marc Adler (marc.adler_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:05:17 GMT

Jacques Guy wrote:

> What? "Fifth-floor ???"

Five-storey cursing, indicating the multi-level quality of the cursing -
taboo root prefix + taboo root + grammatical suffixes. If there are,
conservatively, 10 taboo roots, that makes ... what? 10 x 10 x myriad
variations?

As a tamer example, I once heard John Wayne Bobbit referred to as a
"nedorezannyj durak" - "an idiot who was not completely sliced off." 

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