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RSnyder wrote:Russians are an unsophisticated version of Americans. They are fun people, thugs, drunks, hard workers, saints, etc. I had the opportunity to work closely with them, and they, like we Americanos, have a way of doing things their own way.
Woodsman wrote:Up here the Pollocks know the Russians and they all party together, so ultimately I have partied with them.
ktrout wrote:Woodsman wrote:Up here the Pollocks know the Russians and they all party together, so ultimately I have partied with them.
You mean the Polocks? One of those young women I met while visiting you was impressed that I knew how to exchange pleasantries in a Slavic dialect. My Mom's Mom came from Poland as a girl in the early 1900s. I only learned a few words, such as a very lengthy and impressive curse, in high school due to a friend who can trace his roots to Hamtramck. Then recently out of personal interest. Grandma didn't want to talk about it and we were the persona non grata branch of Northern Michigan hill people, so I never saw her anyway.
Anyway, Woodsman, I can absolutely recommend picking up a few words sitting while around the camp fire. Just pick a dialect.
Woodsman wrote:I hear it every time I'm over there...and everything sounds like a tongue twister to me.
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