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To: GSlob
LOL ... I learned to speak Russian from my wife, she says I have the russian spelling of a four year old.

Can't have everything. It'd be better if I could post in Cyrillic here but oh well.

28 posted on 03/21/2007 5:37:49 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
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To: Centurion2000

Well, [to aggravate you further with the russian grammar] this emphatic clause "yob tvoyu mat' " is an interesting exception : it remains in singular, even when the addressees, like, say, "tovarishchi", are plural. Normal rules would require getting it in plural, too: "yob vashikh materej/matushek" would be needed, but is never used - just the clause in its regular singular, although singular pronoun 2nd person pronoun "tvoyu" could be substituted by 2nd person plural/polite singular "vashu". But "mother" ALWAYS remains in singular.


30 posted on 03/21/2007 5:55:51 PM PDT by GSlob
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