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By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.
Oh, he fumbled, he eez Ronnie Modern .
The paper reveals that despite having the highest rates of new AIDS infection, tuberculosis, and infant mortality in the nation, the city's Commission on Public Health fumbled spending $89 million in federal grant money targeted to just these areas.
Clearly, we'd fumbled the point.