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Gorbachev's English Voice Speaks

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., -, , ] Generall Electric, , - , -, , . , General Electric , . ! , .

( 300 ) * .: , , . , ! , ,! , , , , . (, let the cat out of the office.) j

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"Little knowledge..."1

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1 "...is a dangerous thing" (English proverb).


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- - fourteen (14) forty (40), ! , 14 (unit), , 40! : , , four zero, one four. include () exclude (), , , - , (get customs clearing) ! - (to fall in a booby-trap)! .

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Gorbachev's English Voice Speaks

Recenty, Pavel Palazchenko published his English-language memoirs1, chronicling the last Cold War summits and the challenge of interpreting the father of perestroika's verbose and often fractured sentences into intelligible English.

"My problem was that I had to actually make all of those sentences and mangled structures that Gorbachev produced, I had to make them sound grammatical," Palazchenko said in an interview. "It was even fun for me to do it because it was a challenge. It was a challenge I did not have with other speakers."

1 P.Palazchenko. My Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze. Penn University Press. N.Y.



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