Saturday, August 21, 2010

Off off Russian

Nothing that ends at -off can be authentically Russian. Smirnoff is not a real vodka. And Ivan Rebroff is not a real singer of Russian folk songs.

Just sayin’.

Compare:


(Yuck. This guy is full of himself. Each note takes him too long.)

...with this:


(Master class. So he can’t sing. So his teeth are all British. But at least he has a Russian smile. And after a while he gets better.)

Or, perhaps (the NYC–Boston song):

4 comments:

Chezky said...

What about Rachmaninov??

CA said...

Rachmaninov is -ov, not -off. I know, they also spell his name that way, but that spelling is wrong.

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