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От : Gleb Hlebov 2:5023/24.4222 02 дек 25 13:54:17
К : Ardith Hinton 02 дек 25 14:01:02
Тема : Re: To learn English read something interesting ;-)
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Hi Ardith,
28.11.2025 3:12:21, Ardith Hinton wrote:
AH> Excuse me... but in linguistics it`s important to use
AH> slash lines to indicate the pronunciation. That`s what I was
AH> trying to do here. As usual, we borrowed the word from another
AH> language & pronounced it a bit differently. :-)
Excuse my news reader, for it does see paired slashes and treats them
as "italics" marks, but when I do quote-reply, the message editor
slashes them slashes... :-) If that makes sense at all.
GH>> Which particular type have you imagined: passenger railroad
GH>> car, station wagon, hippie van, horse-drawn cart? :-)
AH> Good question. In those days the Volkswagen was a
AH> passenger car made in Germany & designed to be reasonably
AH> affordable to people on a limited budget. Later on I saw a whole
AH> streetful of them parked in UBC`s University Village, but
AH> unfortunately we didn`t have cell phones with cameras back then.
It was a mild attempt to make fun of the "brand name" ambiguity and how
it could be perceived across different languages. For example, in
American English, I believe "wagon" could also bring to one`s mind an
image of the "wagon and horse" vehicle, while "folks" might as well
amplify the impression of "rurality". Meanwhile in Russia... "wagon"
conjures up a (passenger/freight) railroad car in the first place, but
isn`t directly linked to wheeled vehicles in general; it could even
become a stationary shelter or trailer with its wheels off (e.g. a
small hut for construction workers). In a similar manner, a North
American "station wagon" in no way seems to decode into a Russian
"family car with an extra cargo volume", because "station" again would
involuntarily link it to the railways. So... :-)
... "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." - A.Einstein
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