[lbo-talk] Translation help!
Avery Ray Colter
elf-cat at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 11 11:10:54 PDT 2008
>Hello o wise LBOers!
>
>Could you guys and gals suggest an English word for
>me? I'm trying to find a good translation for the
>Russian "tsarki." It's a dimunitive of "tsar," king.
>In the passage in question the writer calls Somosa and
>Batista "tsarki." I'm thinking "princeling," but it
>doesn't have the same derogatory meaning.
>
>Thanks!
Well, there's always good old Tinpot Dictator.
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Avery Colter, <mailto:elf-cat at sbcglobal.net>
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