Re: conlangers of the world, create!

On Thu, 3 May 2001 17:06:32 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:

[...]
>>> Ah.  "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
>>
>> lol...yes exactly so...who said this? I think I've heard it before...
>
>It seems that it was a well-known wisecrack in the Soviet Union,
>but I do not find it attributed to anyone in particular.  It is
>also reported from India, Czechoslovakia -- and Hungary!
I heard it first somewhere in early eighties, I think, as part of a longer
anecdote which sounded typically Soviet. Never heard of any candidate
author.


Basilius