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To: GSlob
"Well, the basic etiquette requires using commonly understood language on a public forum."

You had no way of knowing that Russian was my first language and I was just showing off.

27 posted on 01/27/2007 9:21:49 PM PST by albee (Okay. so he missed aThe best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: albee

That's why I immediately provided the English translation. If you can get 'zhopu s ushami' without it - good and well. If you know the old joke from which it came - even better. And if you did not happen to know these - the translation was supposed to take care of the situation.


28 posted on 01/27/2007 9:50:10 PM PST by GSlob
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