The Secretary and the Reset Button (A case for promoting U.S. Russian language study)

[Alina Israeli]

1. Has anyone heard Condi Rice say even a word in Russian?

2. The article that is having so much fun with the blunder (and I 
thought those were the thing of the past, Carter's past, when his 
interpreter in Poland confused different word of 'love'), so this 
article has its own mistake: поместила на первой странице фото красной 
кнопкой,

Alina Israeli

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Rolf Hellebust wrote:
>
>> Well, she should've checked with Condi Rice -- though this is just a 
>> typo for "perezagruzka".
>
> I would've been sorely tempted by "сброс," and it seems I wasn't the 
> only one:
> <http://www.mignews.com/news/society/world/070309_103801_28470.html>
>
> But what really amazes me -- see the photo -- is that someone at State 
> thought Russian was written with the Roman alphabet. How ignorant is 
> that!?
>
> They were definitely overcharged for this translation.
>

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