Serendipity...

[alexpgp]

I'm translating some quickies for my best client and in one of them, a technical email, the Russian author adds a personal postscript that, um, quotes Pushkin. (C'mon, be honest, when was the last time someone quoted, say, Shakespeare at you in an email?)

The line:

Полезен русскому здоровью, наш укрепляющий мороз.

My try:

Salubrious to Russian health is our invigorating frost.

Try? Heck, I don't have time to polish it. The meaning is there, and so - as it happens - is the meter.

That's a wrap! (Here's hoping the editor doesn't change it!)

Cheers...