Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)

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Re: Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)

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Post by olegious » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 12:11 PM UTC

Thank you for this, perfect read for a weekend morning, reminds me of Ilf and Petrov’s chronicle of their drive across the USA around the same time- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-storied_America

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Post by yaky » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar.

"Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at the end, which makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd". The modern version is "Кливленд", which is pronounced almost the same as English.

"Мувис" is just transliterated "Movies". I suppose the movies were new enough that the current words "кино(театр)" (kino(theater)) and "фильм" (film) were not in use within the diaspora.

"От'езд" uses an apostrophe instead of ъ, which is what Ukrainian uses. E.g: "від'їзд".

"Все идем видеть его" sounds odd. Maybe an English-structured sentence written in Russian, or maybe just the grammar of the times.

Re: Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)

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Post by practice9 » Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 4:25 PM UTC

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