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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 26.02.2022 21:52   
      
     AK>> So, in Russia we say that the palm itches in the salary day.   
     AK>> Correct?   
      
     AH> I know what you mean because an "itchy palm" has very much the same   
     AH> connotations in English & I think it's entirely appropriate to   
     AH> refer to it in the general sense here because many people have been   
     AH> in situations where e.g. they got paid at the end of the month...   
     AH> the same day the rent was due... and found it challenging to "make   
     AH> ends meet" the last few days before then. :-))   
      
     AH> IMHO you made a good start with a parallelism... i.e. an idea which   
     AH> for native speakers who don't understand the grammar appears to be   
     AH> a mystery. But I know I can count on my Russian friends to   
     AH> understand the grammar, and I see you've grown beyond question #4   
     AH> in the textbook. I've found prepositions quite a challenge in other   
     AH> languages I've studied, so I can assure you you're not alone. In   
     AH> English, when we're referring to a particular day, we say "on"   
     AH> rather than "in". Easter Sunday, e.g., will be on April 17th this   
     AH> year... by our calendar.   
      
   On/in -- yes we think differently. Although Americans, for instance,    
   gave up "in" when they speak about streets. They accept that events    
   happen on the street, like in Russia, not in the street, as the British    
   speakers say. ;)   
      
     AH> Question: I notice that the Orthodox Palm   
     AH> Sunday occurs a week later than ours, and the Orthodox Pascha   
     AH> occurs a week later than our Easter. How do Orthodox churches   
     AH> calculate such dates & does "Pascha" +/- = "Easter"? I'm aware of   
     AH> phrases such as "paschal lamb" but can't quite connect the dots.   
      
   Paskha is the Russian word for Easter. Quite often both events happen in    
   one day. The problem is in ...mathematics and stubbornness. :)    
   Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jews have different mathematics formulas    
   for calculating the passover day.   
      
     AH> Anyway, I think I know what you mean by "the salary day" too... and   
     AH> while I'm reluctant to interefere with a nice parallism I must   
     AH> point out that where I come from it's usually called "payday" to   
     AH> minimize class distinctions between salaried employees & those who   
     AH> are paid by the hour. In general we'd say "payday" without using   
     AH> either the definite or indefinite article....:-Q   
      
   However if speak about a particular payday we probably should use "the".   
   < The previous payday of Dec. 15 was partial. >   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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