It’s a real university, run by the State of Florida. But I didn’t learn French, Latin, or Greek in my youth. I did learn basic algebra and geometry during secondary (high school) education but we do not read the original publications. Instead we use textbooks written by companies like Scholastic or McGraw.
~Max
But if you didn’t study the works of Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky then your education was worthless, for he is the mathematician that all others quote.
Nil, even!
I’m very abashed with this viewpoint, for every normal Russian student at the meanest university heard something about Casablanca, or even Philadelphia story, to say nothing of English learner, who are certain to have been numberless.
Quite agree.
Heard about him? We have songs about him!
Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky (with lyrics) '1953 - Bing video
Darling Lili is not Julie Andrews’ best, nor is it Blake Edwards’ best, but I enjoyed it. I don’t know which version I watched. It’s an entertaining soap opera.
As for comparing Russian TV with US TV, I can only say that the Soviet version of The Hobbit is worse than the Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit. It’s roughly comparable to a Sid & Marty Kroftt show. Better music, worse special effects.
Well, of course. U.S. cinema is widely known to be the best, most intelligent, and most artistic in the world. It only makes sense that Russian students would need to consume American media if they want to be exposed to quality.
The scene is on YouTube which speaks for how risque it was. She’s pretty much in a yellow corset number about as scandalous as a one piece swimsuit, then takes it off at the very end but covers herself with her wide-brim hat (she still has shorts on). Agreed it was probably a bit much for a G but hardly titillating by modern standards.
Who, who, who, who, and who?
I’ve seen the first half hour of Darling Lili, but gave up: too bored and too confused. Julie Andrews as a German spy? Really? (spoilering in case anyone wants to watch and maybe enjoy the reveal scene) Or maybe like me you’ll say “WTF!? We’re supposed to believe this??” Supposedly she’s parodying her “good girl” image, but as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t work.
Here’s an IMDB review:
“Darling Lili lurches back and forth from cloak and dagger espionage to slapstick comedy in the extreme and it’s an uncomfortable ride in the process.”
“Darling Lili” is probably the only Blake Edwards movie Russian State TV could get the rights to.
I think I know what “abashed” means, but I’m not confident that your use of it is consistent with how I would tend to understand it (after all, you do use the word “gnoseological” in post 107). Do you mean the you have been compelled by the discussion to reevaluate some of your previous beliefs about your interlocutors, and you’re now embarrassed about having looked uninformed?
Also, I wouldn’t characterize a film made in 1970 as “old.” Anything after the Hays Code ended is kinda iffy.
I took an upper division American Folklore class with an emphasis on foodways. We had to read a monograph called One man’s meat is another man’s person. Guess the subject.
I disagree. From personal experience, I can tell you Finnish, Czech, and Polish are much more difficult than Russian. Don’t get me started on Hungarian and Estonian!
To speak an Amerindian language like Navajo, you pretty much have to be born into the culture.
Still, it seems wrong to describe Russian as “the easiest language in Europe”.
Though, obviously, which is easiest would depend on where you’re starting from.
I mean, most educated Americans are familiar, to one degree or another, with people like Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Eisenstein and a handful of others. I mean, they were geniuses - hands down. But beyond that, Russian culture barely registers on Americans’ radar. Not only don’t they think that it in any way shape or form rivals their own culture, its considered much less relevant to them than other cultures from around the world, like the British or the Japanese.
I have to say, I’ve always been fascinated by the utter impenetrability of many Russians’ delusions of grandeur. It’s perfectly fine to be proud of your own culture; but to believe that your own culture is so self-evidently superior, and that anyone who disagrees with you is either lying or stupid… well, that’s just fucking hilarious.
Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are all in the same category, but listed as especially hard for that category. Czech and Polish are in the same category, and around the same difficulty.
Tetris. We know Tetris.
Which is clearly Russia’s greatest contribution to the world.