A Natural History of Fictional Russian Foxes & Factual Russian Obscenities

[eredien]

This post is actually about Russian-to-English political satire, literature in translation, race, grammar and linguistics, and humor, but it also contains obscene language in both English and Russian. Thank you for your understanding.So, I know there are several people on my LJ friends list who have doubtless read (and hopefully enjoyed) the

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[sovay]

This post is actually about Russian-to-English political satire, literature in translation, race, grammar and linguistics, and humor, but it also contains obscene language in both English and Russian.

And it's awesome. Thank you.

Wikipedia article on Russian jokes, which gives an overview, examples of, and information on Russian ethnic stereotype jokes, Russian мат humor, and Russian animal folklore jokes.

I love the Wikipedia article on Russian jokes. I think I discovered it a couple of years ago while looking for something completely different; it was kind of like stumbling on Leo Rosten, only not in Yiddish.

[eredien]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. BTW, if you'd like I'd love to hang out with you sometime soon. Email me?

Totally unrelated to this post...

[copperwolf]

breimh says today is (was) a special day for you. Hope it was a pretty good one!

Re: Totally unrelated to this post...

[eredien]

Thank you. I really appreciate that.