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No, I don't marvel at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Matthew
by jackfoxy 17y ago
No, I don't marvel at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Matthews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Matthews
I think any major English language periodical would publish his editorial, which generates more high-brow interest in the English speaking world than in his own country. He has absolutely no influence in Russia today, or for quite some time.
I once had a Ukrainian immigrant barber, who maintained Gorbachev's Russian was very pedestrian, but he had a great English interpretor who could translate on the spot into prosaic English. He (the barber) was very opinionated, and I have never seen anyone make this claim in print.
- coffeemug 17y agoGorbachev has a tremendous command of Russian, but he used it in a way somewhat opposite to that of Hemingway. When he was first elected, people were glued to the TVs to listen to a man who could speak quickly, with an energetic voice, discuss the issues, and do it all without reading from a piece of paper (a huge novelty back then). But he could talk for hours without actually saying anything. The English articles are far more matter of fact - they get to the point much faster than Gorbachev ever did in Russian.
- steamboiler 17y agoWhy would a great interpreter translate something pedestrian to something prosaic? (factual; dull; unimaginative http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosaic http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosaic)
- dfranke 17y agoI think "prosodic" is the word he meant.
- varjag 17y agoHis command of Russian was not unlike GWB's English, with certain pearls from live party sessions widely enjoyed by the population.