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xiphiasAlmost all the time that someone friends me, I friend them back, and then read their journal, too. Because people interest me. I don't post that much friends-locked, but, if someone is interested in me enough to friend me, that interests me enough to be interested in them.
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snysmymrik posts to his or her journal entirely in Cyrillic, which I can't read. I mean, at all. I know, kinda, what SOME of the letters sound like, but not really, and I know, like three words in Russian, and a Russian proverb which someone taught me phonetically and which they claim means "The first pancake is a lump," and that's it.
So,snysmymrik -- if you're wondering why I haven't friended you back, it's TOTALLY not intended as a slight, and if you want me to friend you, I will -- it's just that I'm going to skip over what you're writing, because I just can't read Russian.
It's times like this that I regret not being a linguist.snysmymrik's location is listed as Israel. Which suggests to me that he (or she) can not only function in three languages, Hebrew, Russian, and English, but three alphabets.
I can function in ONE alphabet -- the Roman one. I can read Hebrew, but I can't communicate in it. I can sorta get by in American Sign Language. I know as much Latin as you'd expect from three years at not-the-honors level in high school. And that's it.
The problem is that
snysmymrik posts to his or her journal entirely in Cyrillic, which I can't read. I mean, at all. I know, kinda, what SOME of the letters sound like, but not really, and I know, like three words in Russian, and a Russian proverb which someone taught me phonetically and which they claim means "The first pancake is a lump," and that's it.So,
snysmymrik -- if you're wondering why I haven't friended you back, it's TOTALLY not intended as a slight, and if you want me to friend you, I will -- it's just that I'm going to skip over what you're writing, because I just can't read Russian.It's times like this that I regret not being a linguist.
snysmymrik's location is listed as Israel. Which suggests to me that he (or she) can not only function in three languages, Hebrew, Russian, and English, but three alphabets.I can function in ONE alphabet -- the Roman one. I can read Hebrew, but I can't communicate in it. I can sorta get by in American Sign Language. I know as much Latin as you'd expect from three years at not-the-honors level in high school. And that's it.