Russian vulgarity

DoreneFC at aol.com DoreneFC at aol.com
Thu Nov 14 07:29:05 PST 2002


In a message dated 11/14/02 5:57:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, ajacobson at igc.org writes:


> . Isn't Putin's comments an example
> of (in Russian) "mat" or a kind of general colloquialism that is often
> sexual
> in nature?
>
> Kind of like if a reporter asked Bush a question and Bush replied "go piss
> up
> a rope."
>
> I'm not sayin', I'm askin'...
>
> Alan Jacobson
>
>
>

That possibility occurred to me too. I checked various print sources at home and haven't talked to actual humans to see what they say.

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