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Archive for June, 2009

I’m listening, sir!

I started reading Anna Karenina in Russian, and was pleasantly surprised to find I could actually read it; well, 80% anyway, good enough for basic comprehension.   Clearly, I’m missing a lot of the subtlety, but you only learn this by repeated applications of Tolstoy.   However, I did run across something that completely baffled me, that [...]

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