US, Russia: Medical Insurance (Lost in Translation, Sort Of)
Russia
Everybody I Love You reports on how difficult - or even impossible - it is for his Russian wife to get a Blue Shield of California medical insurance - because they require copies of her “medical records”: “And what, Dear Sir, Mr. Senior Underwriter, constitutes medical records? Can't say, can I? Isn't defined. Would it be every form filled out by every doctor she's ever seen? Would you like that translated and in triplicate? Where would you like me to leave the file cabinet?”
In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The...