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Title: Dictionary of Russian Obscenities by David Alan Drummond ISBN: 0-933884-54-0 Publisher: Berkeley Slavic Specialties Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: i would give this book 3.4374398256489564387435746 stars
Comment: who wood have thunk it that aaaaaa equals oooooffff in rusian? i am a rusian that loves to party with his badself. i memmorized this entre bookk. weinerschnitzel is my favorite word
Rating: 2
Summary: Useful only for scholars...
Comment: ...and maybe not them, either. The book has many words and phrases, but there are no indications as to which are obsolete and which are actually useful for a traveler or a student of modern Russian. There are no transliterations, no guide to the Cyrillic alphabet, no English translations of the woodcut illustrations, and no indication as to which words are scandalous and which are merely naughty.
On top of this, Drummond gives only idiomatic translations, not literal ones. Most obscenity dictionaries do this to some extent, but many of Drummond's translations are simply wrong. (I'd cite examples, but they'd keep this review from being published.) Literal translations are funnier, and give a much better sense of what exactly a culture finds obscene.
If you're reading pre-20th century Russian literature in Russian, buy this book. Otherwise, buy Christina Kunitskaya-Peterson's "International Dictionary of Obscenities." It is much more user-friendly and has four other languages to boot.
Rating: 5
Summary: taboo, but useful
Comment: This miniature booklet, small enough to carry in pocket or handbag, presents definitions of Russian obscenities in straightforward manner. The book contains the very crudest sexual and scatological lingo. It is handy for deciphering street-slang and grafitti whose translation one might hesitate to inquire of one's proper Russian friends. Unlike "Dermo!", Drummond's dictionary does not include phonetic English pronunciations nor provide examples of the vocabulary in witty little phrases -- which is preferable, since it could be disasterous for foreign visitors in Russia to attempt to spice their speech with these taboo words. Moreover, some of the entries are antiquated terms now obsolete in "everyday" vulgarity. These are most useful for students of nineteenth-century Russian literature, bawdy tales, and lewd verse. Equivalent russkie slovari of English-language obscenities are nearly nonexistant; I gave my first copy of Drummond's little dictionary to my podruga in Krasnoe. She finds it useful for translating the "unspeakable" speech in American videos!
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Title: Dictionary of Russian Pyccknn Slang: Caeht & Colloquial Expressions by Vladimir Shlyakhov, Eve Adler, Vladimir Shlykhov ISBN: 0764110195 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used by Edward Topol, Laura E. Wolfsonm, Kim Wilson Brandt ISBN: 0452277450 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: International Dictionary of Obscenities: A Guide to Dirty Words and Indecent Expressions in Spanish, Italian, French, German and Russian by Christina Kunitskaya-Peterson ISBN: 0933884184 Publisher: Scythian Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: 501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged (501 Verbs Series) by Thomas R., Jr. Beyer ISBN: 0764113496 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar by James S. Levine ISBN: 0070382387 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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