gjm comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 09 December 2014 06:56:24PM 0 points [-]

I wasn't claiming it was anything like an exact translation! Only that there's a certain commonality between that English way of expressing awedness, and the Russian one we'd been discussing.

Comment author: Romashka 09 December 2014 07:09:00PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, well. Maybe there are suspiciously many differences in expressions of awesomeness in the two languages. I was concerned rather of an opposite mistake. I have read somewhere that in one of S. King's novels, a man was heard having sex in the next room and crying out, Der'mo! Der'mo! etc. Now, in Russian, der'mo doesn't have an 'awesome' connotation, the way shit seems to in English. It was as if he was crying, Poop! Poop!..