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March 31, 2005
A small complaint
Thanks to years of Russian dictionary use, my brain is now convinced that the Roman letter "c" is somewhere roughly two-thirds of the way through the alphabet; this makes looking up French and English words beginning with or even just containing the letter "c" about as fun as you can imagine.
Posted by michele at March 31, 2005 4:27 PM
Comments
And how about "P" (Russian R) and H (Russian N)?
Posted by: Tatyana at March 31, 2005 8:50 PM
For some reason these letters just haven't corrupted my brain so much.
Another thing that gives me a huge headache is trying to write by hand any Russian name in Roman letters. As soon as I try to get Dostoevsky or Stalin or something down on paper my brain freezes and I come out with weird hybrid words with Gs for Ds and so on.
Posted by: Michele at April 1, 2005 12:13 PM
I see; we came to similar stage from different ends (me-from native Russian thru mostly English for 13 yrs): this same thing usually occurs to me with foreign words borrowed into Russian that have their counterparts in English : apartment, cravat, hotel, etc.
Posted by: Tatyana at April 1, 2005 3:06 PM