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Well yeah, the grammar articles are something rather foreign to Slavic languages, as you may have noticed in my posts (esp. the longer ones) - so we usually drop 'em, though there are people who are aware of that and overcompensate by sticking them everywhere :)

Or the opposite... Tolstoy would write strongly worded letters to his foreign editors demanding that his works were translated without grammar articles at all, and don't they try and fool him, he could read in many languages :)

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It's a common mistake in the Japanese translations to English I check. Only the best translators consistently get 'em right.

 

No articles in Japanese.

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Well but it at least rehashes the old joke about the difference between Pravda and Izvestiya newspapers...

 

"There are no news (izvestiya) in Pravda and there is no truth (pravda) in Izvestiya" :)

 

Old Finnish joke..don't try to use Pravda to lit up your fireplace..."since truth doesn't burn even in fire". :D

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Scientology is not recognized as religious group in Germany as well. They operate as non profit club I think. And like to bitch against Germany being Nazis and poor Scientology is being discriminated against like jews have been. Though it has been quiet in recent years.

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Scientology is not recognized as religious group in Germany as well. They operate profitably as non profit club I think.

 

FIFY.

;)

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Scientology is not recognized as religious group in Germany as well. They operate profitably as non profit club I think.

FIFY.

;)

Of course. :lol:

With Scientology I took that as a given. It is their raison d'etre after all. ;)

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Well, it isn't.

At least not when compared to mercury vapors or organic compounds.

 

So, in order to demonstrate its "harmlessness" he should keep an open basin with mercury in his room.

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Political correctness, Russia knows it not, and I find that pretty ironic.

 

 

Soviet time was so heavily "politically correct" (long before the word for it was invented in US) that now it is a kind of overreaction in opposite direction. Actually present-day West is seen as sad joke by us Soviet-born....

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Political correctness, Russia knows it not, and I find that pretty ironic.

 

 

Soviet time was so heavily "politically correct" (long before the word for it was invented in US) that now it is a kind of overreaction in opposite direction. Actually present-day West is seen as sad joke by us Soviet-born....

 

 

That is what I find ironic.

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Political correctness, Russia knows it not, and I find that pretty ironic.

 

 

Soviet time was so heavily "politically correct" (long before the word for it was invented in US) that now it is a kind of overreaction in opposite direction. Actually present-day West is seen as sad joke by us Soviet-born....

Many here see it the same. The thought policing and conformity is appalling.

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Interesting is that this kitchen cutting board was discovered by US Embassy press secretary in high-end organic food shop in Moscow. Shops chain already apologized....

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An insult to all chimpanzees!

By the way it is interesting if claiming this image to be resist accounts to racism itself? Or at least indicates the way of thinking... Nice subject to play by lawyers...

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