"Upgrading" English

[J F Levin]

At 10:32 PM 8/7/2010, you wrote:

>BTW, people who speaks of those things are "lovely" 
>called  lingvofreaks (lingvofreaks.narod.ru). For ex. A.N. Dragunkin 
>speaks rightly of this  - English is just a version + of Russian 
>(5sens.dragunkin.ru).
Well, I have enjoyed such games for decades, looking for mnemonics 
for students.  My favorite is that KBAPTNPA [using here Latin
alphabet to fake cyrillic] contains its own translation in the middle 
(apt.)  The logo Toys'R'Us, with its reverse 'R' in the middle, is also
a great temptation.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles 

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