Thread: You've been in Russia for too long...

Originally Posted by Indra

Originally Posted by Alware

Originally Posted by Ramil

Originally Posted by basurero

Какая хорошая идея! Я намереваюсь попробовать носить с собой полиэтиленовый мешок. Я терпеть не могу, когда я выхожу [where or from where], и мне некуда положить мои вещи. :P

green то can be omitted.
Also consider using собираюсь instead of намереваюсь. It's more fluent this way.

Red ! is optional either

ненавижу means different thing in Russian.

Не гони волну, вполне употребляется в таких ситуациях.

Originally Posted by scotcher

Originally Posted by Alware

Red ! is optional either

"Either" only goes with negatives.

"Is... too" or "Isn't... either".

Thank you

Originally Posted by Ramil

* You are no longer surprised when your taxi drivers tells you that before Perestroika, he worked as a rocked scientist.

Interesting that you say this. My interpreter said she was a medical doctor.

This is off-topic, but JJ I like your signature.
On-topic, I liked the lists!

* You know the offical at the metro station/airport/border post/post office/raliway station, etc. etc. is going to say ‘nyet’, but you argue anyway.

Thats awsome... Too bad I have never been... but its like that in New York... Does this count?

Originally Posted by MalenkayaKatinka

This is off-topic, but JJ I like your signature.
On-topic, I liked the lists!

Agreed!!!! Its funny... mine is... "not"

I think this list is very true still for Russians who now live in the US. Many of the people I've met were architects, engineers, etc. but now they don't do anything close to what they did... However, that could also be because it is hard to have their degrees translated. So I've been told.