Please Don't Hurt My Feelings
In The Russian Word’s Worth, Michele Berdy deciphers and translates великий могучий — the great and powerful — Russian language.
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In The Russian Word’s Worth, Michele Berdy deciphers and translates великий могучий — the great and powerful — Russian language.
For Russians, a heart is way more than a pump in your chest.
The weather might be cool, but people are hot to protest. Here's how to talk about it.
You can never have too much money or shashlyk.
People were voting by rules set in the Constitution they were voting on. How's that again?
Being tired is just so exhausting I feel like a squeezed out lemon. Really.
Тут is such a simple, sweet-sounding word... and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Russian paronyms - летучий, летящий, летательный, летающий and лётный - are horrible.
Answering a question in my mailbag sent me down the rabbit hole of Russian abbreviations - great fun!
When the command нельзя means don't, and when it means something else entirely.
A very silly update on the language of our new normal in Russia.