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To: SevenofNine

Terrible is an English mis-translation...there are a lot of them. Grozny means feared. That is why the fortress in the south was named Grozny (then it became a city) as it was feared by the Chechen slave raiders.


17 posted on 10/18/2005 7:05:56 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: jb6

Puttin' on my pedantic translator hat - Terrible is an acceptable translation. Groznyj actually means threatening or menacing. Strict translation would be Ivan the Fearsome. ;-)


19 posted on 10/18/2005 7:24:02 PM PDT by Romanov
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So not infamous Russia Tsar but more like Tsar way back in da day before Ivan the terrible or after him I see

Yeah I like to know where they get the name Grozy


21 posted on 10/18/2005 7:36:23 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
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