03-10-2005, 08:31 PM
Jester,Mar 10 2005, 09:51 PM Wrote:Well, I can hardly claim to be an expert in slavic languages. I can only speak Russian at an *extremely* marginal level, and I could only get Latvian by looking at an online dictionary. Polish, Ukranian, Belorussian, etc... are a complete mystery to me.
What I was taught is that, in Russia, "drug" would only apply to your close friends, and not to the broad network of people that we English-speakers would call "friend". Also, I was taught that "tovarish" had clear political connotations. But, then, maybe my prof. was off the ball.
More likely, it just has different connotations in different countries and regions. What's your frame of reference?
Jester
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Sorry about that, maybe your right! :P
Does anyone have a link to the original story I would like to have alook at it? :blink:
It is a myth that the hair and nails grow after death! The skin shrinks, giving the illusion of their growth.
When J.F.K. was assassinated in 1963, it was not a federal felony to kill a U.S. President.
The leading cause of death to military personnel in peace time is drunk driving.
It would take more than 2.5 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest.
0xDECAFBAD is a hex oddity, a coincidence of hexadecimal digits which just happens to hold some incidental semantic content to weird humans.
When J.F.K. was assassinated in 1963, it was not a federal felony to kill a U.S. President.
The leading cause of death to military personnel in peace time is drunk driving.
It would take more than 2.5 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest.
0xDECAFBAD is a hex oddity, a coincidence of hexadecimal digits which just happens to hold some incidental semantic content to weird humans.