Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Russian Words of the Year for 2017


Dec 28, 2017 — 15:00 — Update: 13:59 By Michele A. Berdy, Moscow Times; via MT on Facebook -- Many thanks!

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The third category is антиязык (anti-language) – or rather the language of anti: the language of propaganda, lies and aggression. There isn’t much to say about these words. First place: иностранный агент (foreign agent), what people and organizations are when they accept foreign funding — or when someone doesn’t like them. ...

And finally: альтернативные факты (alternative facts), a phrase made famous by Kelly Anne Conway to defend Donald Trump’s insistence that more people attended his inauguration than Barack Obama’s.

But it isn’t just a Trump-phrase. It’s the world-wide winner for the year. ...
Michele A. Berdy is a Moscow-based translator and interpreter, author of “The Russian Word’s Worth,” a collection of her columns. Follow her on Twitter @MicheleBerdy.

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