internet humor about stalin netinalju stalinist - Eesti Rahvaluule

Arvo Krikmann
been cited as normal Internet texts, although there is not yet a digital version
of Viikberg’s book.
Principles of textual editing
1. In the interest of saving space, the spaces between paragraphs have been
eliminated in most of the source texts. Introductions preceding texts or commentaries
following texts have occasionally been left as separate paragraphs,
and in a few cases very long texts have been separated into paragraphs.
2. e sections that are in verse form are also presented without beginning
a new line. Breaks in the verse are denoted by a slash (/), and breaks
between verses by a double slash (//).
3. Direct speech is placed between ordinary quotation marks (“...”). e
introductory words preceding it generally end with a colon. e period at the
end of a final sentence of direct speech is placed before the quotation mark
that designates the end of the sentence. Immediately contiguous utterances
by different participants within dialogue are separated by a dash (–). Example:
Stalin asked, with even greater anger: “Who sneezed?” – “I... I sneezed.”
– “Bless you, comrade!”
4. e spelling of the Russian proper names (especially the names
Khrushchev, Brezhnev Chernenko and the other more problematic ones) in
the English, German and Finnish texts has generally not been edited.
5. All emoticons, for instance the symbol :-) etc. have, somewhat regretfully,
been removed. In addition, sections of the text that were capitalised are
presented in sentence case. Longer sequences of exclamation and/or question
marks have been reduced to 2-symbol combinations: (!!) or (??) or (!?) or (?!).
6. Obscenities contained in the source text have not been obscured. If
such an expression was obscured in the original text, it is in all places marked
with three dots: for instance, х*й is replaced with х...й, f**k with f…k etc.
7. e names of repeatedly mentioned persons are sometimes abbreviated
in the original text, especially in the case of dialogue that does not contain introductory
words. If the number of repetitions is not great, such abbreviations
are replaced with the full names, but in the case of more repetitions, they are
left as abbreviations, but their spelling is standardised. In exceptional cases,
other abbreviations appearing in the source texts have also been written out in
full, in which case the added part is inserted in square brackets.
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