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I'd say "Despite being small, zolotnik is valuable" (zolotniks were used to measure gold, and later there were small gold coins under the same name )

There's an almost forgotten continuation to...

Thanks you! :grin: I'll save it, just in case.
I remember trying to find out once what a cup was, different sites gave different sizes.

It does not seem so easy when you live in a country with different standard cups. )) The Russian segment of Internet is filled with cries of distraught Russian women: "How many grams are in a cup"?...

I agree, metric units are quite impersonal. The only "metric" saying I can think of right now is "метр в кепке", referring to someone very short.
Nothing prevents Russians from using expressions,...

Same can be said the other way around. :crazy: It only proves that people do not like changes.

I think that apart from an understandable desire to follow their own traditions people are generally averse to metric system because they think it's something incredibly complex. It is not! You can...

I think you missed the joke completely.
Or maybe I did, because I don't see anything offensive to the Queen in this thread. :)

Королева Великобритании берет дело в свои руки. )))

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To the citizens of the United States of America...