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Started by Walter Lee
Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:37
Alexander Lipson
Author: Walter Lee
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:37
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 05:37
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Are there any other people out there who used the bizarre textbooks of the late Alexander Lipson? These are titled "A Russian Course, Part 1", "A Russian Course, Part 2" and "A Russian Course, Part 3". I think "A Russian Course, Part 3" is an unfinished work. My copy of "A Russian Course, Part 1" is the 1981 edition published by Slavica Publishers, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. ISBN 0-89357-080-X. "Ia doktor vsekh nauk... ia yzhe izuchala topologiiu, fiziku i astrobiologiiu" -- Malenkaia Sonia "Ia ne khochu chistit'. Ia ne khochu rubit'. Ia khochu sidet' v restorane i kak vse obrazovannye liudi govorit' o sotsiologii, o topologii i ob etnologii." -- Bednaia Katia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Walter Lee w2lee@argo.acs.oakland.edu To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on the consent of the citizens, these are basic among all freedoms ... and this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point of view the best form of government ... What so many human beings in the modern world have failed to understand is that freedom is the greatest
Re: Alexander Lipson
Author: Paul Makinen
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:59
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:59
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I have many fond memories of the Lipson textbooks; we used them in
Russian classes at the University of Massachusetts in the late 1970's.
The Lipson books are a charming combination of existential angst and
poking fun at socialism as (formerly) practiced in Russia:
One of my favorites was the story about Zapadnyi Blinsk and Vostochnyi
Blinsk ("Zhiteli Vostochnogo blinska lyubyat stroit' gidrotekhnicheskie
ustanovki poka zhiteli Zapadnogo blinska lyubyat lezhit' na plyazhe
slushat' dikii dzhaz, itp.").
And of course, who could ever forget Malenkaya Kat'ya and the Raketnaya
Zhenshchina...
Re: Alexander Lipson
Author: Shawn O'Donnell
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:23
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:23
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My favorite, besides the Sverkhchelovek story, was "Ze Inglesh Leson":
[this was in cyrillic:]
Teacher: Dzhon, esk Meri uat shi ez doing.
Dzhon: Meri, uat iu ar doing?
Anyhow, after we used the book, Slavica Publishers came out with a new,
better typeset two volume edition of the book (I think...) I also think
that Professor Lipson passed away before the second (?) edition appeared.
The other day I was wondering how long Lipson's humor will be
understood by students: lots of the stultified language that he
parodies will (let's hope) disappear as Russia puts the old ways
behind itself...
"Beton beton beton beton
Hasha brigada betonaya..."
or
Bezdel'nini kuriat na trolejbuse...
I suppose that the libraries will always keep old copies of bad
literature and bad journalism, but even Pravda isn't like that
any more. (They still have their heads in the sand, but they
don't talk like that any more.)
Keep up the good work, all you udarniki!
--Shawn
Re: Alexander Lipson
Author: ;;;;RD48
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:39
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:39
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In article <SRO.93Jan11002314@media-lab.media.mit.edu> sro@media.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell) writes: >The other day I was wondering how long Lipson's humor will be >understood by studentshat he Sovki sami nekogda ne zabudut! A A -- Gavin Helf UC Berkeley Political Science Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu
Re: Alexander Lipson
Author: jensen Curtis Jensen
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:16
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:16
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Who indeed...
Re: Alexander Lipson
Author: michael kagalenko
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:33
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:33
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In article <SRO.93Jan11002314@media-lab.media.mit.edu> sro@media.mit.edu (Shawn O'Donnell) writes: >My favorite, besides the Sverkhchelovek story, was "Ze Inglesh Leson": >[this was in cyrillic:] > > Teacher: Dzhon, esk Meri uat shi ez doing. > Dzhon: Meri, uat iu ar doing? > >Anyhow, after we used the book, Slavica Publishers came out with a new, >better typeset two volume edition of the book (I think...) I also think >that Professor Lipson passed away before the second (?) edition appeared. > >The other day I was wondering how long Lipson's humor will be >understood by students: lots of the stultified language that he >parodies will (let's hope) disappear as Russia puts the old ways >behind itself... > > "Beton beton beton beton > Hasha brigada betonaya..." > >or > > Bezdel'nini kuriat na trolejbuse... > >I suppose that the libraries will always keep old copies of bad >literature and bad journalism, but even Pravda isn't like that >any more. (They still have their heads in the sand, but they >don't talk like that any more.) > >Keep up the good work, all you udarniki! > >--Shawn After reading this thread about jokes in Russian textbook I understand why "Sovetologists" were so suprized about recent events there. This has nothing to do with Russia. BTW, people there in average are more educated than in America. American college students is sheer horror, if compared with Russian. Chiao, folks
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