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Now I'm curious what the answer is supposed to be in this joke. :) Does anybody know?

I can share the grammar rule, though:

"Пол-" (a half - from "половина") in compound words is spelled:
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translation please :( sorry I know some Russian, but not that much[/quote]
astronomer just recollected an old joke:

- Do you know why half a litre ("пол-литра") is spelled as separate words,...

translation: Polchasa bez lyubvi, polchasa - Half an hour without love, half an hour
am I right? (am i improving my russian reading? because I could recognize the words, in the cycrillic text...