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    The bad thing is that English uses all those...

    The bad thing is that English uses all those taken words in their original spelling, although the rules are different in different languages despite their common latin letters. The worst thing is...
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    Or "bratan" :) , which is rather gangster-style.

    Or "bratan" :) , which is rather gangster-style.
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    I only agree with "гать", more or less, and only...

    I only agree with "гать", more or less, and only if it really means "swamp" somewhere and not "a log-path through swamps". Other are dialectal and absolutely out of scope of the literary language,...
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    It was exactly "morass" that was a final blow for...

    It was exactly "morass" that was a final blow for me. I knew "swamp", I knew "bog", "marsh" and "mire". But then I started coming across "quagmire", "fen" and "slew" (as an American usage). When I...
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    And these people say we have too many words

    I remember several people here (e.g. Dogboy) complained the supposed "abundance" of Russian vocabulary. As for me, I always thought it was English that was to be accused of this fault. Only the...
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