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[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm spelling it wrong but I'm looking for the correct spelling as well as the English translation for "димяная уха".  I know "уха" is "ear", but what is the English translation of the name?  I'm trying to help out a friend with folklore stories and would like to be able to do an Internet and library search, if possible.

Thanks!

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[sige-vic.livejournal.com]

it's not "ear", it's a fish soup. And "Демьянова" (name - Демьян). It's from the famous Krylov's fable.

[sige-vic.livejournal.com]

Here it is! Demyan's fish soup! :-)
http://www.sunbirds.com/lacquer/readings/1039

[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

For some reason I thought it was "ear" because of the constant bothering...kinda like a fly or bug in the ear.

Thank you!

[odin2000.livejournal.com]

"ухо" it is "ear"; "уха" it is "fish soup".

[cherniavska.livejournal.com]

Demyan's fish soup.

[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've definitely experienced that. Haha

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

Демьянова уха (Demian's Fish Soup) is a fable by Ivan Krylov where a certain Demian is feeding his neighbour and guest Foka with fish soup of his own cooking, and Foka is too polite to refuse a third, fourth, fifth helping until he finally gets up and runs away. The moral concerned people who read their poems and stories to their guests, and don't know where to stop.

Ironically, Krylov himself died of (perfectly voluntary and rather enthusiastic) overeating.

[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm terrible at re-telling stories so I thought it'd be best to get the "official".

[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

erm...Ухо is ear :) ухА is definitely a fish soup :)

[bellezzarubata.livejournal.com]

Mmm, love those words that sound slightly similar. : )

[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

I was told a story about 2 american friends of my russian friend who lived in Beijing :)
The decided to travel from Beijing to Moscow by train :) the transsiberian one :)
hehe :) it took them a week or so :) but they were absolutely tired of drinking
because they tried to buy water (вода) at the stations, but obviously misspelled it and were given vodka often :)

Kind of off-topic

[acuzena.livejournal.com]

I hope everyone heard that Russia is not the most drinking country? We're only on the 18th place!

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[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

what a pity :)))

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[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

IT's not that Russians actually drink MORE, it's that they find drinking acceptable everywhere, at any time of the day. Other countries drink waay too much at night on friday and saturday, but would never drink beer before noon.

Re: Kind of off-topic

[acuzena.livejournal.com]

Pardon my French: bullshit.

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[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

Hey, think what you want, but many many foreigners are amazed by mid-day and morning drinking found in Russia and the former soviet republics, it's just in the culture that it's ok. I don't personally think it's wrong or anything it's just really different. As for the poor foreigners, it was totally a joke based on some swedes I knew.

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[acuzena.livejournal.com]

Ок, sorry for the previous comment.
But I'm a native Russian, 19 years I've lived in the region, now 3 years I live in the capital and neither there nor here for all my life I've seen a "typically russian drunk person" - somebody drunk before am.
Let it be my private opinion, but it really hurts when someone considers Russians a drinking nation, when in reality it isn't so.

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[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a mountain of experience! You've lived and traveled a lot to surely know this is bullshit.

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[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Well, with just 25 years I've lived just in Moscow I cannot speak for the whole Russian nation like the grand parent but in my limited experience people did not have any problem drinking before noon, or any time of day for that matter. And yes, I have seen countless drunk people in the mornings. And drank myself. And during Gorbachev's Prohibition I've been walking past lines formed around liquor stores opening at 2 pm every day etc. etc.

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[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

No one would argue that many Russians drink a lot, and drinking IS acceptable for many

That is exactly what are you trying to do.

but please don't generalize by saying this holds true for everyone

You have to be fairly drunk to read something like this here.

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[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Lol, so we also should stop saying something like "Russians sent the first man into space"? I think we should stop talking till you sober up at the very least, bye-bye.

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[acuzena.livejournal.com]

Very funny. I wasn't talking about traveling, I compared capital and region.
You don't know how much I've traveled.

[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

Or, the kiosk ladies took pity on the poor foreigners, and decided they would be much happier with vodka. Who needs water anyway when you have cheese and Kolbasa and a nice chilled bottle of russki razmir.

[alex-mashin.livejournal.com]

razmer.

[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

SHE knows better.

[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

thanks

[adri-nwnderland.livejournal.com]

one letter totally makes the difference, as well as accent. I got totally stared down by a magazin prodavshitsa for saying ApelsinOvi sok. As I said, I love Russians, but the society is way more accepting of drinking than European or American. That's ok. It's just the truth. It's also a bad stereotype. Like how Americans smile all the time because they are stupid or how Germans are rigid and can't have a good time or how Chinese people are thieves etc etc etc. If you play into the stereotypes you are lost, with any nation. But stereotypes have a basis.