Am 06.01.21 um 16:47 schrieb mike wilson:
From my visits in the early 2000s, I managed to pick up a little of the language.
The thing that strikes me most about Russian is the incredible amount of German loan words. I had a hearty laugh when I found out that my Russian weather fax receiver had a built-in reference oscillator referred to as the "kamertonskiy generator" (if my latin transcription is correct). Just recently, I've seen tramlines in Russia referred to as "marshrut", obviously our German Marschroute, i.e. a marching route. And it's not only Russian. The Croats have the wonderful word 'rajsferšlus'. I'll let you guess what that could be... Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
