The latest news: v Krymu, ...

[Laurence Horn]

I always found it a bit off putting that the word for hello was something I learned (or tried to learn) as something like vzdravstvytye.  Seems like it would cut down on cordiality.  Something more like "privyet" is reputedly also possible but we weren't allowed to resort to that one--this was in 1962, and the class began at 8:00a.m.  Needless to say...

LH


On Mar 5, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> There is a part of me that wants to ask what is so hard about pronouncing
> "v Krymu", but I guess, if you could answer the question, there wouldn't be
> a question...
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> DanG
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> Which is why in my graduates school days I gave up trying to learn
>> Russian -- I couldn't pronounce it.  (This actually was one locution
>> the instructor assigned the class during its first week.  Was he
>> using it as an intentional weeding out "shibboleth"?)
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