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Thread #149562   Message #3541378
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
24-Jul-13 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: DT Correction: Lobachevsky (Tom Lehrer)
Subject: RE: DT Correction: Lobachevsky (Tom Lehrer)
That is more or less Gerry's point as well: the text version or transcription is slightly incorrect. ("Ya [y]edoo", or, in German trascription, "ja [j]edu", can mean "I drive".) But it does not matter much, since in the context it amounts to nonsense anyway - as if Lehrer had just used both Russian phrases he ever memorized, tongue-in-cheek.