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by Sparg
Sat May 13, 2006 12:41 am
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Do they speak "epañol" in Chili?
Replies: 17
Views: 47569

Slavic Portuguse

Portuguese is a Slavic language, right? :wink: :-), reminds me of my first visit to Lisbon. I overheard a few people on the table next to me and i was wondering which Slavic language they spoke. It turned out, indeed, to be Prtgs. (snip) Frank Years ago I had a job listening to Russian radio. The f...
by Sparg
Sat May 13, 2006 12:26 am
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Dan Brown's foreign languages
Replies: 5
Views: 17305

Perhaps Mr Brown is mixing his Japanese and Russian. Акула/akula is "shark" in Russian.
by Sparg
Fri May 12, 2006 2:19 am
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Russian etymology question
Replies: 11
Views: 29135

I guess it just looked funny in the message body box. Пока!
by Sparg
Fri May 12, 2006 2:16 am
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Russian etymology question
Replies: 11
Views: 29135

How do you get the Cyrillic to come out on this web stuff? I'm used to my KOI keyboard. I wrote it and it came out as:

Большое спасибо!
by Sparg
Wed May 10, 2006 11:57 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Russian etymology question
Replies: 11
Views: 29135

Thanks, all, for the fine replies, especially for the one Russian page. As my Russian brethren would say, "Bolshoje spasibo!"
by Sparg
Wed May 10, 2006 12:40 am
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Russian etymology question
Replies: 11
Views: 29135

Russian etymology question

I've found nothing on the net about this and none of the natives I've dealt with have a clue, so I thought I'd throw it out here. The morphology of Russian numerals is very logical, except for the word for "forty", sorok. It is completely unique. My first Russian instructor, Mr Bockstein a...

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