Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Evgeny Steiner]

Привет, Гасан. Молодец!
Добавил бы еще из "Юности честнаго зерцала" про "чтоб можно их от других
незнающих болванов распознать".
Впрочем, я не уверен, что это одобрят те, кто радеют об униженных и
оскорбленных (ибо что есть грамматика с правописанием, как не форма опрессии
привилегированных классов!) и ратуют за nite вместо night...

ЕШ

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Gasan Gusejnov <gusejnov at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Женя, привет!
> Дискуссия знатная.
> По ее следам, но вбок: от нашего стола - вашему
> столу<http://lenta.ru/columns/2010/02/15/letter/>
> ,
> гг
>
> On 7 February 2010 21:11, Evgeny Steiner <es9 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > To peel or not to peel...
> > The subject is amusing - more so than the Big-Endian / Little-Endians
> > disputes.
> >
> > ES
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Drew S <dwswear at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > And it sure beats the Gascon mailing list I'm on, where over 50% of the
> > > discussions involve impassioned arguments that Gascon is a completely
> > > separate language in its own right, and NOT a dialect of a larger
> > 'Occitan'
> > > language that includes Lengadocian, Provençal, Lemosin and Auvernhat,
> > which
> > > is claimed to be an artificial and imperialistic assertion by Occitan
> > > 'nationalists' (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz).
> > >
> > > Cultural ramifications for the presence or absence of skin on potatoes
> is
> > a
> > > breath of fresh air in my world.
> > >
> > > Andrew Swearingen
> > > Centre for Romance Linguistics
> > > Department of Medieval and Modern Languages
> > > University of Oxford
> > >
> > >
> > > On 07.02.2010, at 19:33, Toman, Jindrich wrote:
> > >
> > > > Oh, this is nothing in comparison to the opera discussion we had a
> few
> > > years ago!
> > > > J.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2/7/10 2:29 PM, "Michele A. Berdy" <maberdy at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Anybody else find this conversation a bit odd (at least in the
> passion
> > > >> that
> > > >> people are putting into potato skins)?
> > > >
> > > > Actually, I was thinking about how much I loved this list. I never
> knew
> > > that
> > > > the question of peeling vegetable and fruit skins was so interesting!
> > >
> >
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