Friends don't let Friends kill Friends

[Occhidiangela]

Nit: Isn't the Russian word for friend "drug", whereas tovarish translates to "comrade"?

(apologies for the poor transliteration...)

Apparently the Latvian is "draugs", which doesn't really surprise me much, except that that appears to the singular form, which is disconcerting to my english brain. :P

My two kopeks,

Jester
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Good point, and tovarich has certain political connotations anymore. Ashock had a pretty good explanation of that a few years back, I think on the old forum.

I should have looked it up . . . or asked my brother, who speaks almost fluent Russian. Likewise, compañero has different connotations than amigo. One can trip over synonyms if one does not attach a dictionary to one's thesaurus.

Thanks for the reminder. :)

Occhi