Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> Succulent? What does that mean?

AK> IMHO,  rich, full of content.  For instance, a girl with
AK> a succulent mouth. :-|

I thought it meant prickly outside and sour inside, but  you
were right and I wrong.

AS>> I  strongly  recommend  you to learn how to use a spell
AS>> checker.  If I do it, I shall unlearn spelling: P

AK> A spell checker can be used only when you want  it.  For
AK> instance,  before  sending  your  text  to somebody, for
AK> checking. 

Good idea, for it is rather annoying  to  see  it  underline
words  while  typing,  as  it is when Visual Studio starts a
perforce compilation and checking of your C# code before you
have  finished  the  code  of  a  function.  I have no spell
checker in any of  my  editors:  FAR,  Sylpheed,  and  Rpad.
Shall have to use an external tool, probably.

AK> I read the original at
AK> https://mybook.ru/author/dmitrij-lihanov/bian...
AK> It  told  us that the earth _started losing_ its warmth,
AK> but it was not cold then.

Right you are, I plumb missed it.

AS>> Have you read the original, which indeed has  "orange"?
AS>> I  chaged it to "mandarine" because in English "orange"
AS>> is a common color name, whereas Likhanov used the  name
AS>> of  the  fruit rather than of the color and I wanted to
AS>> emphasise that fruit association.

AK> In Russian we have the  orange  color  which  associated
AK> with  orange  fruit.   And the author meant exactly that
AK> color ("apelsinovy", or orange, in English).

Yes, but the usual word to denote that color would have been
"oranzhevyj".

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