Subj : New Year's Day.
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Thu Mar 04 2021 13:34:49

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.  :-)




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