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this isn't digital data processing, Indra, this is grammar :) You would have to write: Девушка и/или молодой чеолвек

wouldn't it be better to just say "молодые люди" instead of "девушка или...

Thanks guys, that is exactly what I thought. You wouldn't say молодой человек to a woman, but grammatically you can. Therefore, extrapolating on that and being an eternal Devil's advocate (maybe even...

Ummm, no :)

It's just that writing "девушка или молодой человек" seems to me to hint that women aren't people :) But I am probably seeing things ;)

No you are right, you call a unknown young man for молодой человек, but as far as I know, you can techincally call a young woman the same thing, since молодой человек means young person...

Monkey:...

молодой человек - Young person

Women aren't people? =)

PS: девушка или молодой человек

Что, девушка не может быть молодым человеком?

They were missing, it just seemed to boring to write "missing"... :wink:

Actaully Friendy is right, I was reading a bit on Peter the great on Wikipedia, and I was noticing that many english articles had been abducted and were missing in the text!

Here is another useful link:

http://www.soviethistory.com/

Google is also a very informative source on Soviet History!