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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
That sentence was the most memorable from my Russian class. I used it on some Soviets once. They looked at me as if they suspected irony.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
Oh. 'We study Russian because Lenin spoke it.'
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...as I said... VERY rusty...
One sentence I remember is
"skashite mne paschalsta, gde Bolsjoj Teatr?"
..but I´m not sure I´ve transcribed it correctly 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
I have trouble with the transliteration myself...at work, I always traded off with the Slavic people, and did their Greek for them...
Were you asking directions to the Bolshoi Theatre?
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Yes!
But I wouldn´t understand if anyone gave me directions...
Two of my collegues are fluent in russian, and they always laugh when I say that sentence.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 21, 2005
I thought it meant, "Watch me hit the bullseye, teacher."
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
Reminds me of the great German saying whenever you're in a foreign countty and don't know the language...'Ich verstand immer nur Bahnhof' - I only understood 'train station'.
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Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
mir kommt das spanisch vor! (for me it seems to be spanish)
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 21, 2005
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But what if you're in a country that doesn't *have* a train station?
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
That would be a problem. In the US, it would probably be 'Ich verstand immer nur Bushaltestelle'!
Yes, the Spanish thing was because of the Hapsburgs. They had a lot of Spansh at court, which annoyed the German speakers.
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Tavaron da Quirm - Arts Editor Posted Oct 21, 2005
It was the spanish Hofzeremoniell I think, when they married one of their doughters to a spanish (don't ask for names, I'm too bad in history) and so all habits they didn't understand had to be spanish.
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Mocking languages can be fun...
Two very famous (and good) swedish comedians made a movie about Picasso some twenty-five years ago, "the first talking silent movie". The only person that spoke understandably in that movie was the narrator. The actors spoke in mock spanish, french, american english etc...
In one part of the movie everything is in black and white, and Picasso´s life is hard and dull. Then a beuatiful womans shows up. She sings and everything turns into colour and everyone is happy.
What she sings... according to a freind of mine is a cake recipe in finnish...
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