necturus: 2016-12-30 (Default)
necturus ([personal profile] necturus) wrote2015-02-26 08:32 am

The thought just struck me

Discussing same-sex marriage in Russian must be difficult, as there is no verb "to get married", but only "жениться" ("to wife onself"), or "выйти замуж" ("to go out after a husband"). They are completely different expressions.

While poking around in a bookstore in Hallowell, Maine the other day I found a 1953 edition of Tolstoi's Anna Karenina in the original Russian. This has become my latest project.