09 June 2008

Внимание, уважаемые пассажиры!

Posting just for the sake of having more posts is dumb. Good thing that's not what I'm doing. ;) What I am doing is directing your attention to the addition of a new blog to my links list ("Friends and Acquaintances") – YPMBluegrass, four of my college friends documenting their summer in Louisville, Kentucky. They're band friends, so you know they're crazy in the best possible way. Check it out if you know them, or maybe even if you don't!

To make this post not-completely-non-Russia-related, have I mentioned that the symbol @ in Russian (called a "sobaka," meaning "dog" – looks a bit like a dog chasing its tail, though I don't know if that's where the name comes from) isn't interpreted as a stand-in for "at"? Russians tend to read it almost the same way we read "e" (as in email, e-card, e-book), meaning something like "pertaining to the internet." So I've gotten my students good and confused before by writing things like "class will be @ 4 p.m." on the board. Complete nonsense! Crazy American.

3 comments:

Katie said...

woo, thanks!

Anonymous said...

Its name is the asperand.

Celine said...

Haha, that's funny! Actually, in Russian class in Vlad we talked about @, and its different names in the languages of our own countries. Unfortunately, I forgot them all, I do remember there were some funny ones. All I know now is that we used to call it a monkey's tail, but now we've completely taken up the 'at' thing...