Her mom likes me.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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You’ll be here in May? Oh, we will have to do something. Featherlou? Alice? Trupa? We’ll organize something, I’m sure.

Russian writing only looks hard. Once you know it–and it’s only 33 letters, two of which are not pronounced and which act more like accents regulating pronunciation of previous consonants, you’re fine. Read what you see on the page (well, with a couple of rules taking all of five minutes to learn), and you’ll sound like Gorbachov.

Genders? Easy, only three: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Everything is identifiable by noun ending (well, in most instances); not like French, where you just have to know the gender of the noun.

Cases? Yes, but only six. And once you get the hang of them, you begin to wish English would go back to use them. Well, maybe not. Anyway, Russian uses them, and the’re pretty straightforward.

There’s more, but we’ll wait until May. :smiley:

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I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that. :smiley:

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My experience with the Russians is that their word is more trustworthy than their paperwork. They’re also… Jesuitic, in that they’ll do some interesting mental pretzels to avoid “lying by commision” and being able to claim it was all “a misunderstanding”. And many have Spartan ethics, i.e., “nothing wrong with stealing, the only sin is in being caught.”

Funny thing is, I usually like them unrepentant bastiches. But I reserve the right to tell them they’re bastiches when I catch 'em, and they usually laugh and say I’m right.