From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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Date: | Monday, August 6, 2001, 19:20 |
Roger Mills scripsit:> ... ptitsa ...What's neat about this is that it's a Russian calque of English slang: _ptitsa_ is "bird" in Russian, but in Nadsat has the meaning of "girl". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter