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Originally Posted by Eric
Mirabell, I admire the fact that you have, latently, a good knowledge of Russian. I had this with Dutch, which my mother gave to me when I was a baby. Persevere, it's worth it.
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Nothing to admire, it's not due to any effort or talent of mine. it's just there. and it's my own fault that I speak russian like a very stupid German these days. ah, laziness, it always comes back to haunt youse.
russian is such a special language. i mean you speak it better than me: isn't the mixture of utter simplicity and metaphorical depth incredibly amazing? maybe that's cuz I'm German and we have these long and stiff structures and 'literary' equals using lots and lots of them, or it used to mean that, but I keep looking at the poems in my bi(?)lingual Celan translations book, in the russian section...and it has this weird flow...
such a beautiful language....