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  From: "alexander koryagin"   
    
  Hi, Roman Rogov! How are you?  
  on Wednesday, 22 of December, you wrote about "Anecdote from the USS"  
    
   JB>>> Then it occurred to me, even a fast food outlet in N. America  
   JB>>> (international?) professes that their sandwich makers are  
   JB>>> "artists"  
   JB>>> too. So, if authors are also artists; so are *we!*  
    
   ak>> I think that the reason we have difficulties is that many words can be  
   ak>> translated into Russian only partially. For instance "art." In English  
   ak>> it has a wider meaning.  
    
   RR> It seems to me that you'd better consider an ancient and quite literary  
   RR> translation of the word "artist" to slavonic "ÇÇÇÇÇÇÇÇ", i.e. any  
   RR> specialist in some specific kind of handycraft, e.g. making sandwiches.  
   RR> :-)  
    
  Yes, a spoken language resembles me a tree. The big braches are phrases,  
  small ones are words. And sometimes some branches fall off. Our famous  
  humorist went even further: he said that English language was the  
  descendant  
  of Russian, and he managed to prove it. The word "iskustvo" (I believe  
  english readers cannot see it if you write it in Cyrillic) is derived from  
  the verb "kusat" or "to bite". In other words, art in Russia is was, long  
  ago, a small delicious piece of food. And "iskustnik" was actually a cook.  
  So we have in English. Let's check it "bite" => a piece of art => a batik.  
  Or you can even say "His song lacks any real bite." In other words it is  
  tasteless.  
    
  ;-)  
    
  [...Live and let live]  
  Bye Roman!  
  Alexander  
  fido7.english-tutor 2010  
    
    
    
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