On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 03:11:11PM +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > On Jun 22, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I knew a man who had been a docent for IBM at an exhibition in Moscow > > circa 1960. He proudly displayed a sign he had snagged as a souvenir: > > > > ДУМАТЬ > > When I was a senior in High School (and my father worked for IBM) I > was given one that says “ДУМАЙ”. I have it here on my desk. > > (Google translate renders both as “THINK”. I don’t have any idea > what the difference is in Russian.)
думать -> "to think", i.e. infinitive, a basic verb form думай -> "think!", i.e. imperative mood, a verb in form of a command directed to someone -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
