Quote Originally Posted by Basil77
BTW, I'v just noticed, this thread should win the award "The greatest off-topic ever" on this forum!
Ой правда!

Quote Originally Posted by Оля
Мне Медведев одного нашего царя напоминает. Даже некоторое внешнее сходство, кстати, есть.
Интересная мысль. Симпатяга, в общем, только под Путина косит малость. Их много там таких сейчас, как не послушаешь -- ну точно такие же интонации и паузы.

Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile
What culture more influenced you personally European or Japanese? What name rings the bells better for you: Walter Scott or Chikamatsu Monzaemon?
Good point. I could easily name maybe a dozen European composers off the top of my head but no Asian ones. And the same applies to all cultural things. Hence, we certainly have beeen influenced much more by the European culture than Asian. I've just been reading two interesting articles on Chinese and Japanese, after which Russia and the Russian language/culture look really European.
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard?
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