Hello,
on 2005-01-31T18:44:20+03:00 Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon) <dragon@...> wrote:
>> Isaac Penzev wrote:
>>
>>> It is not regional. It comes from jail slang where it denotes a passive
>>> homosexualist. Jail slang words became very popular in USSR after WW2.
>>
>> I gotta ask what a homosexualist is. Someone who believes in homosexuals? <g>
> Hehe...
> The Russian word appears to be "gomoseksualist", with an adjective
> "gomoseksual'nyj". (English of course gets by with just "homosexual"
> for both.)
Hehe... Man, that's Isaac's fault! He's spoiling my English! ;) I knew
something was wrong with "-ist" but I didn't bother to look it up.
Alexander
--
Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/
savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/