The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[NancyL]

I'm 17 chapters in, and I think it would be really helpful if someone can put their hands on a Glossary for this book. I'm relying on my High School Russian, but it's not covering all of the slang.

 

[Jim Deutch]

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pravda mentions tMiaHM.
Google also comes up with the meaning of bolshoya in the first couple of hits.
I didn't find a full glossary, but http://stilyagi.org/content/fanspeak-dictionary has several more terms.
I suspect you can find most with google searches.

 

[amysrevenge]

I have the audiobook, and I find that you just sort of absorb it from context with enough meaning to get by.

 

[NancyL]

Thanks all! I've finished the book and am looking forward to our discussion. Dasfidanya!

 

[NancyL]

Just a note on a couple ways that people are addressed in the book:

• Guspodin/Guspozha is like Senor/Senora in Spanish; a formal greeting in standard Russian
• Grazhdanin/Grazhdanka means Citizen/Citizeness in standard Russian
• Tovarisch = Comrade (for both sexes, from old USSR usage) used in the book more to indicate a member of the resistance
• Droog = friend (as was also true of Clockwork Orange)