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Help[Opinions] Re: Laika...?
in reply to a message by Sofia
Oh, doesn't it? Thanks, Sofia ... I foolishly believed what the South African newspapers told me, back in the 1950s: they gave Little Lemon as the translation, but didn't explain how they got it, and back in those Cold War days nobody would have thought of walking into a library or bookshop and checking. A little girl - not me - wrote a poem about Little Lemon in a school magazine in, was it 1957? Russian was taught here for the first time at university level in the 1970s, and as far as I know Croatian still isn't on offer.
Barker is funny, actually: you know there's a stock character in soap operas, handsome, filthy rich, e-e-evil but enjoys life and his own villainy enormously and beds every woman in sight? In one of our leading local soaps there is just such a horrible character, and his given name is ... Barker! Like the surname, or the space dog! Barker Hayes. Ask any South African.
Barker is funny, actually: you know there's a stock character in soap operas, handsome, filthy rich, e-e-evil but enjoys life and his own villainy enormously and beds every woman in sight? In one of our leading local soaps there is just such a horrible character, and his given name is ... Barker! Like the surname, or the space dog! Barker Hayes. Ask any South African.
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