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Maybe we do have the same book, I found the one you're referring to on page 46. The one I'm talking about is on page 49.

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I remember that book! It was pretty good, indeed.

I still find it kind of weird he would use вы with his sister.

That's kind of interesting how a person can go from ты to вы. I haven't reached the part where he actually talks to her, so I have yet to see if he really says вы to her.

What's with all the...

Hmm. But in the quote I have there, Raskolnikov is talking to himself. How could he possibly use вы to refer to his sister if he's just talking to himself?

I'm going to read "Doctor Zhivago" in Russian after that. Then I'll have to go to Russia and walk the several hundred mile walks...;)

So nobody can tell me any interestnig tidbits about forms of address in the 19th century? Even our resident philologist?

No, I decided to read Crime and Punishment, and I'm sticking to it. Besides, I am not finding Dostoyevsky that difficult. And I don't have that book you mentioned anyway(and I don't like reading...

Yeah, I finished reading 12 Chairs a while ago and I needed something good and Russian to read. Read it in English a couple years ago, decided to experience it in the original this time :)

Reading "Crime and Punishment" and noticed Raskolnikov addresses his sister with вы, even mentally:


I remember VM saying something about addressing your parents with вы. Does the same thing go...