[HN Gopher] Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)
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       Mayakovsky in Cleveland (2023)
        
       Author : wormold
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2024-04-19 16:59 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (clevelandhistorical.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (clevelandhistorical.org)
        
       | olegious wrote:
       | Thank you for this, perfect read for a weekend morning, reminds
       | me of Ilf and Petrov's chronicle of their drive across the USA
       | around the same time- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-
       | storied_America
        
       | yaky wrote:
       | Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has
       | fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar.
       | 
       | "Klivland" (Cleveland) is spelled with "a" at the end, which
       | makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd". The modern version is
       | "Klivlend", which is pronounced almost the same as English.
       | 
       | "Muvis" is just transliterated "Movies". I suppose the movies
       | were new enough that the current words "kino(teatr)"
       | (kino(theater)) and "fil'm" (film) were not in use within the
       | diaspora.
       | 
       | "Ot'ezd" uses an apostrophe instead of ', which is what Ukrainian
       | uses. E.g: "vid'yizd".
       | 
       | "Vse idem videt' ego" sounds odd. Maybe an English-structured
       | sentence written in Russian, or maybe just the grammar of the
       | times.
        
         | comonoid wrote:
         | An apostrophe instead of ' was sometimes artifact of using an
         | old typewriter (1920th). One hero of literature wondered why
         | all the words are written with ' (where appropriate), but
         | ob'iavlenie (an advertisement on a bulletin board in this
         | context) was invariably written with an apostrophe. Well, many
         | advertisements on boards was typewritten, and even handwritten
         | advertisement started to follow this spelling, and even when
         | typewriter was produced with ', this spelling persisted in this
         | context.
         | 
         | But it may be an urban legend.
         | 
         | Upd: sometime this "legend" says that after the spelling reform
         | of 1918 the ' at the end of words was banned, this letter was
         | forced to be removed from typewriter as well (though it may be
         | used in a middle of words). The article on this reform in
         | Russian Wikipedia mentions, that for the same reason ' was
         | seized from typographies to restrict its usage. In both cases
         | an apostrophe was used instead. It seems these facts are
         | consistent with each other and this particular usage of the
         | apostrophe.
        
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