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  1. October 14th, 2005, 06:42 AM #1
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    A Question about Russian Ducks

    There's an interesting post here:
    http://www.sinosplice.com/weblog/archiv ... and-shapes

    about how the orthography of a language shapes the way we describe things.

    The one I found interesting, and made me wonder about russian, was:

    1)What shape do migrating ducks fly in?
    English: a V-shape
    Chinese: 人字形 (a “人 character” shape; “人” means “person”)

    So, my question is, what do Russians say? An "Л" shape? That's all I could think of since the handwritten "л" looks like an upside down "v" ...

    Also, (just if anyone knows) what about in greek? Since the lambda is an upside down v...


    Just some things to think about
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  2. October 14th, 2005, 08:08 AM #2
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    Re: A Question about Russian Ducks

    And Russian ducks fly "клином"!
    The phrase "V-образная форма" is also used in some techical texts
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  3. October 14th, 2005, 08:25 AM #3
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    Re: A Question about Russian Ducks

    Quote Originally Posted by Rostova
    And Russian ducks fly "клином"!
    The phrase "V-образная форма" is also used in some techical texts
    А я-то думал, что только журавли клином летают. Что, и утки тоже?

    Тенденция, однако.
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  4. October 14th, 2005, 08:38 AM #4
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    А чем утки хуже?! Не буквой "зю"же им летать
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  5. October 14th, 2005, 08:49 AM #5
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    что то там с аэродинамикой связяно...летящие в острие клина рассекают воздух и создают турбулентный поток, облегчая полет летящим позади. потом они устают и их сменяют отдохнувшие утки.
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    BTW, for those of us who can't understand Russian that well yet, "Клином" would be in english "wedge-formation"
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    Quote Originally Posted by ST
    что то там с аэродинамикой связяно...летящие в острие клина рассекают воздух и создают турбулентный поток, облегчая полет летящим позади. потом они устают и их сменяют отдохнувшие утки.
    И зачем они это делают?
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  8. October 15th, 2005, 02:07 PM #8
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    ну помогают этим лететь более слабым вроде как
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