Tuesday, March 20, 2012

BOOM'S DUNGEON: And you thought you like Dostoevsky ....

BOOM'S DUNGEON: And you thought you like Dostoevsky ....: "The Russian language has plenty of regional dialects, professional and criminal jargons, slang expressions, and other sources of phonetic, syntactic, and semantic deviations from the linguistic mainstream.   But using any of them would give the readers a thoroughly misleading and faintly surreal impression that under the skin of a Southern plantation Negro hides a Siberian peasant, a Chechen gangster, or an old Jew from Odessa."

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