Quote Originally Posted by RedFox View Post
Не совсем так. Чёртов русский язык!


(178 ) Они боялись маму и потому не звонили, чтобы не причинять беспокойства.
D'oh!

But it seems to me that this is, possibly, an example similar to Его приняли в космонавты, isn't it? In other words, a very rare exception that foreigners can ignore until they're at the advanced level of learning Russian.

PS. Note to other non-Russians: Logically, you'd expect the sentence to be "Его приняли в космонавтов," basically meaning "They accepted him into the astronaut corps." The fact that the form of the final word happens to be космонавты instead of космонавтов of is very weird and contrary to logic -- but this is such a rare example that beginners don't need to worry about it too much.