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|  Message 4057  |
|  Alexander Koryagin to Ardith Hinton  |
|  Funny story about Russians  |
|  04 Dec 23 09:29:48  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 656d7fe4 REPLY: 1:153/716.0 5692df07 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 3.0 20231203 NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0. CHRS: LATIN-1 2 TZUTC: 0200 Hi, Ardith Hinton! I read your message from 01.12.2023 01:14 AH> According to my sources this word refers to a peasant... i.e. a term AH> somebody Dallas & I knew years ago applied WRT those who live in the AH> country & whom he thought to have limited education, intelligence, & AH> /or knowledge of how things work in the Big City. But I understand AH> it can also signify an ordinary adult male, and I reckon the latter AH> is more like what you had in mind.... :-) Today informally we often use "muzhik" to denote a cool, strong man as an opposition to a modern weak, feminized one. Most often phrases are "he is a real muzhik!" or respectfully about a man who keeps his word: "Muzhik has said Muzhik has done!". :) |
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