Fw: Fw: klass

[Andrew Jameson]

Thought I'd share this gem..
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> From: J. Rouhier-Willoughby <jrouhie at pop.uky.edu>
> To: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com
> Subject: Re: Fw: klass
> Date: 16 April 1999 14:58
>
>  "lozhit" (instead of kladyot) on the other hand sounds very
> >> like a foreigner's assumption going from polozhit to lozhit as a logical
> >> move. I doubt a real Russian would do it,
>
> I had a native emigre ask me last week if the imperfective of polozhit' was
> lozhit'. He simply did not know klast'. That is what he says at home, he
> explained. JRW
>
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