Sep 12, 2017 10:36
6 yrs ago
English term
Breasts
English to Russian
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Brezhnev\'s pronunciation
I know the usual translation, but I am asking in the following context:
(From an article in the Daily Telegraph today)
'By the late Seventies, the ageing Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev got by on a cocktail of drink and drugs, and often slurred his speech. When he gave a public address, he would mispronounce the Russian word for "systematically” as the Russian word for “breasts”. Given that "systematically” comes up a lot in socialist theory, this must have had the effect of turning his speeches surprisingly blue I take that anecdote from William Taubman’s new biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.'
I listened to many Brezhnev speeches while working at BBC Monitoring, but I don't remember anything like this.
(From an article in the Daily Telegraph today)
'By the late Seventies, the ageing Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev got by on a cocktail of drink and drugs, and often slurred his speech. When he gave a public address, he would mispronounce the Russian word for "systematically” as the Russian word for “breasts”. Given that "systematically” comes up a lot in socialist theory, this must have had the effect of turning his speeches surprisingly blue I take that anecdote from William Taubman’s new biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.'
I listened to many Brezhnev speeches while working at BBC Monitoring, but I don't remember anything like this.
Proposed translations
(Russian)
4 +11 | сиськи-масиськи | Marzena Malakhova |
4 | сиськи | Grigoriy Tereshchenko |
Proposed translations
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Selected
сиськи-масиськи
Из известного анекдота про Брежнева:
- Что такое 'сиськи-масиськи', 'письки-мисиськи', 'кому-сисиськи'?
- Это Брежневу в докладе встретились слова 'систематический', 'пессимистический', 'коммунистический'.
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Note added at 6 мин (2017-09-12 10:42:37 GMT)
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Анекдот пародирует нарушения речи Брежнева. Вполне возможно, что реальный Брежнев ничего подобного не произносил.
- Что такое 'сиськи-масиськи', 'письки-мисиськи', 'кому-сисиськи'?
- Это Брежневу в докладе встретились слова 'систематический', 'пессимистический', 'коммунистический'.
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Note added at 6 мин (2017-09-12 10:42:37 GMT)
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Анекдот пародирует нарушения речи Брежнева. Вполне возможно, что реальный Брежнев ничего подобного не произносил.
Note from asker:
Thank you. Yes, he may never have said it, and if he did I would not have thought of the meaning referred to here. |
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сиськи
My father told me that Brethren pronounced word systematically (систиматически) as something like сиськи-масиськи.
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Note added at 6 mins (2017-09-12 10:42:49 GMT)
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Brezhnev
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Note added at 6 mins (2017-09-12 10:42:49 GMT)
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Brezhnev
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