Proud of my little translation of this poem, preserving rhyme and meter. THE WRETCH Look here! A nicely groomed, “Enlightened European”; In flagrant treachery—betrayal in the nude— The S.D. wretch lays down his dirty flag, a peon Before his fascist master’s boot. – Demyan Bedny
Russian has no word for “Privacy” 10 May 2015 I like to point out the sheer number of words in English, compared to a language like Russian; every word in Russian, including dialectal, archaic and nonstandard forms, amounts to around 300,000 words at most. That’s barely half of the Oxford English Dictionary, which itself is missing countless slang terms, neologisms and adopted foreign words. Yet we anglophones are never content. I’ve seen countless tabloid articles and blog posts about supposed “words that English desperately needs,” griping about how we don’t have a word for “a face badly in need of a fist” like German does. ...