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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Shut up capitalist dog.
Now,now, now comrade....religion is the opiate of the masses.....you don't need a soul to be a new soviet man......[:D][:D][:D]
Soul not religious, you silly American. Soul is part of Russian that no one else have, that allows Russian to live through difficulties and tragedy where other nation would break and still make joke about it. It why Tolstoy idolized common man, because his outlook on world was simple, while the pampered aristocracy made big deal out of every stupid thing. You understand now?
ORIGINAL: gladiatt
too-early-morning guys.
this night i had to bring Claire to "emergencey psychiatric hospital".....
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
ORIGINAL: Mynok
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I'm curious, Yuri, and will try to ask this discreetly as this is an open forum. Having had a good deal of interaction in my consulting years with Hasidim, many of Russian origin, I found them a fascinating people. They did not seem to have your affinity for things Russian however. Never heard it used. Which was fortunate as I have zero Russian...Yiddish was easier since it had many German words which I could get, along with the Hebrew and colloquialisms which I could not.
PM me if you prefer. Or not. Just a curious Celt here with a love of languages. [;)]
Hmm.....not sure how to answer that. Well, most of my contemporaries, the ones that left around the time we did, dont speak Russian, or do so rather poorly. My parents, however, were very insistent that I must not forget Russian. That, coupled with my love for history, gave me the impetus to keep reading and speaking it.
That's interesting Yuri. My ancestry is Italian. All of my grandparents got off the boat around WWI. I grew up with my grandfather (a WWI Italian Army vet) in the house. His philosophy was that we were in America, we speak English. He never let me learn Italian. Now I did learn the culture and follow a lot of it to this day. It's interesting how people are in the same circumstances but arrive at different conclusions.
