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Буфетчица в кафетерии филфака говорилa напарнице, с ненавистью глядя на очкариков:
– Давай ты напишешь на ценнике: «Свеже-сваренный кофе – 100 рублей», а я напишу: «Свежесвареное кофе – 50 рублей».
Посмотрим, как они мучаются моральной дихотомией и предают свои идеалы.
The cashier in the coffee shop in the university's English department said to her colleague, whilst looking at the bespectacled customers with undisguised contempt:
"How about this? You should write on the price list: 'Freshly brewed coffee: $4', and I will add, 'Fresh brood cofee: $2'. And then both of us can watch them suffer from moral dichotomy and betray their ideals."
(from B. Akunin's "Intellectual Jokes" collection; translation is mine, with assistance from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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– Давай ты напишешь на ценнике: «Свеже-сваренный кофе – 100 рублей», а я напишу: «Свежесвареное кофе – 50 рублей».
Посмотрим, как они мучаются моральной дихотомией и предают свои идеалы.
The cashier in the coffee shop in the university's English department said to her colleague, whilst looking at the bespectacled customers with undisguised contempt:
"How about this? You should write on the price list: 'Freshly brewed coffee: $4', and I will add, 'Fresh brood cofee: $2'. And then both of us can watch them suffer from moral dichotomy and betray their ideals."
(from B. Akunin's "Intellectual Jokes" collection; translation is mine, with assistance from
lindahoyland )
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