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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] reading ADA anagramatically]
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:39:11 +0100 (CET)
From: soloviev@irit.fr
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: <49C979ED.1070400@utk.edu>


Again a little remark to all the list members who like so much -
and not so much - the anagrams and alike. The name "Ada" itself
(and surely, there is a distraction) has such hellish connotations
in Russian (after all, Ad means Hell) that it provoked many
jokes. I remember from soviet times a joke about the programming
language "ADA" that
was invented (the joke said) as a hellish opposite to the
Gorbatchev's wife Raya (diminutif of Raissa) - Rai in Russian meaning
"paradise".

Best to all -

Sergei Soloviev


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