Mosnews reports that residents of Russian village awoke one day last week to discover that their prized lake had vanished. Nobody’s sure where it went…
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo near Nizhny Novgorod looked on disconsolately.
“It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground,” said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel. […]
“I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,” said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
Are there no depths to which the Americans will not sink in their mission to impose democracy on the world???
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Khaj 05.23.05 at 4:29 pm
In the last sentence (whoops, again) there is an incorrect apostrophe, a possessive “s,” at the end of “Americans” instead of a simple “s” with no apostrophe–the regular, plural form of “Americans”.
Andy 05.23.05 at 5:04 pm
You know, back in the day, I used to be quite good at spelling and grammar and all that stuff. Got A Grades, and everything. Ah, those were the days…
Tim Newman 05.24.05 at 12:54 pm
Spelling ability in English decreases with increasing ability in Russian. It’s true.
Andy 05.24.05 at 1:53 pm
Interesting idea. Sadly, in my case, I find that Russian and English language abilities are both decreasing at an alarming rate…
It occurred to me this morning, that I’d completely forgotten the Russian word for coat. My winter coat was perhaps the most expensive and deeply researched purchase of my time in Russia, and I spent many hours discussing the damn things with friends, colleagues and shopkeepers. But it wasn’t until I went to Babelfish just now and looked it up that I rediscovered that it is a пальто.
Scott 05.27.05 at 1:25 am
Khaj,
Take an English-language spelling chill-pill.
From a proper-spelling English-speaking Butt-Head.
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