ATD: candidate errata

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Sat Dec 2 02:59:15 CST 2006


> > P. 830, l. 23-24: "Preferring your own sex? What is that? If
> > anything, these
> > days, is path to career advancement"
>
>It's Grisha speaking here, and dropped articles are a conventional
>caricature of Russians speaking English. The once-popular "Rocky and
>Bullwinkle" TV cartoon show featured Boris and Natasha: "What is problem,
>Boris?" "Is moose and squirrel !"

Yes, on closer inspection I can see you're right. I only included the 
example because this linguistic quirk isn't a consistent feature of Grisha's 
talk. Most of the time he speaks perfectly decent English, but I can see 
there are other instances of this "Russianism" in the novel.

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