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New York and London are both famously polyglot cities: if you want to find a native Russian speaker, it won’t take very long and there are obvious places to start.

Penguin Books is a major publisher with offices in London and New York.

It is therefore a sign of a slightly embarrassing failure of copy-editing that, in one of Clive Cussler’s novels, as the hero is spotted creeping on to a Russian ship, a guard shouts ‘Ostanovka’: which even my desultory Russian tells me is “stop” in the sense of the place you go to to catch a bus.

Date: 2010-01-17 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] downybearded1.livejournal.com
Lol! *sigh* wish I had a second tongue.

Date: 2010-01-17 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hatam-soferet.livejournal.com
You communicated as much to them, I trust? They might even send you a book token...

Date: 2010-01-17 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com
*giggle*

Date: 2010-01-17 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jojomojo.livejournal.com
Hmm, is he not one of those writers of potboilers known generally more for their dramatic affect than their accuracy? He/they may simply not care...

Date: 2010-01-18 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pavanne.livejournal.com
*laughs*

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