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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AK>  Do you you know there are bilingual books, when   
    AK>  on the left page is the English original and on   
    AK>  the right page is Russian translation.   
    AK>  The latter is always longer.   
      
      
               One of my friends at university, who happened to be Roman   
   Catholic, told me she had a prayer book with English on one side & Latin on   
   the other.  I didn't think to ask her which was longer.  But I've noticed,   
   when I see cooking instructions written in English & French, that it generally   
   requires more space to express the same idea in the latter.  I realize this   
   may be at least in part because Francophones don't use possessives the way   
   Anglophones do.  They'll say "la plume de ma tante", e.g., where we'd say "my   
   aunt's pen".  I don't know how this relates to Russian.  But I see that if one   
   language has a word which isn't easily translatable into another, a little   
   more verbiage may be needed....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  Some apparently type up a storm immediately. But   
    AH>  that's not my style, and I gather it's not yours   
    AH>  either.   
      
    AK>  An off-line discussion is a good thing, I agree. ;)   
      
      
               Uh-huh.  As we speak, I'm working on five or six replies to   
   various participants in this echo.  They'll remain in my writing area until I   
   decide to post them manually & AFAIK folks using offline readers can do   
   likewise....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AK>  What time is too late for you? ;-)   
      
      
               Probably about 11:00 PM by our time, because we may talk up a   
   storm with you & we may take awhile to defuse afterwards... [wry grin].   
      
      
      
    AH>  By my calculations you are eleven hours ahead of us...   
    AH>  at least until Daylight Saving Time kicks in.   
      
    AK>  Google says Vancouver time is behind Moscow time by 11   
    AK>  hours in winter.   
      
      
               Same idea, different perspective....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AK>  The 8-th of March, for instance.   
      
      
               Your time or our time?  The evening of this day would probably   
   work for us.  But by my calculations, it would be Tuesday morning in   
   Russia....  :-Q   
      
      
      
    AK>  I can't invent anything better than creating a   
    AK>  temporal e-mail box where you can send your Skype   
    AK>  alias: galexkotemp@gmail.com.   
      
      
               Sounds like a plan... I'll look into that when we find a date   
   which works for you as well as for Dallas & me.  Thanks.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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