Thread: What don't you like about Russia?

Originally Posted by VendingMachine

I am forced to disagree. A one-storey house has a парадное but has no лестница.

Hmm, that may be true. But if we just focus on multi-storey apartment blocks, than all the three words are synonymic. I think we can even drop "multi-storey" in this case.

Yep. Snobs say "прихожая". The same snobs who say "музЭй" if you know what I'm talking about.

In my experience it is exactly the other way around. Those saying "музЭй" are a lot more likely to say "hall" and even "lobby". To say nothing of a couple of French borrowings.

[quote:13bd5dzk][quote:13bd5dzk]холльи ... холла ...

Have you become friends with 44 Canon? Smoke the same stuff or something?[/quote:13bd5dzk]I don't understand your comment.[/quote:13bd5dzk]
That guy is creative with grammar just like you are here.