Issue 4269. Last Updated: 11/07/2009

Getting All Bent Out of Shape

By Michele A. Berdy
have to admit that my ears perked up the other day when I heard Prime Minister Vladimir Putin say: “ … у нас в народе есть такое не очень литературное слово … ” (Our people have a word that isn’t exactly standard literary language … ). Oh, boy. Time for another Russian lesson.

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