Discriminating against Roma isn't racist - because they're all thieves

[Elok]

Er, RedAlex? I don't think your English is quite as good as you think it is. I have no idea what you were trying to say in your last post (except the bit about not harassing the Roma for not knowing Russian well; that I got). You have good vocabulary, don't get me wrong, but you're putting words together in a very unusual fashion. I imagine you're just in the habit of using Russian syntax and idioms.

[RedAlex]

Originally posted by Pekka
Dude, pull my finger, be a man and stop acting like a girl. And we know Russia is one of the most hospitable places for immigrants, and that has got nothing to do with the fact that Gypsies are also known to be hard working and honest people. Now, pull my finger already!

The FHD Pekka wrote:
'...we know Russia is one of the most hospitable places for immigrants...'
That's true. Also in this country some marginals, especially slang-thinking, address each other 'chuvak' (='dude').
And when smbd. acts too 'chuvakishly' (dudely), we use to say '****-off, chuvak!',
which is '****-off, dude!'
The abbreviation FH you allready know.
Wish your peKKing fingers bee happy!
Without regards,
RedAlex

[RedAlex]

Originally posted by Elok
Er, RedAlex? I don't think your English is quite as good as you think it is. I have no idea what you were trying to say in your last post (except the bit about not harassing the Roma for not knowing Russian well; that I got). You have good vocabulary, don't get me wrong, but you're putting words together in a very unusual fashion. I imagine you're just in the habit of using Russian syntax and idioms.

Hi, Elok!
1. Concernig so called functional style. Yes, you are quite wright. An influence of working language environment is inevitable. And of course the lack of everyday speach practice in recent years. Well, I hope it's reparable.

2. Concerning SF and fantasy novels. Working with startup authors I discovered about a year ago that if a map for a novel is playable in Civ, it is also comfortable both for author to evolve the plot and for personages to travel, go here and there etc. Not in all cases, only when the map is vital.
I generated several maps for half a dozen of the novels in my current editorial list, and had them tested with authors sitting besides and improving their stories. That helped. Idea works.

3. Concernig Gypsies. There is a SF novel: DREW MENDELSON. Pilgrimage, about 1979, took some prizes and press coverage. Very unusual (for that time), travelling city long before Chr. Priest's 'The Inverted World'. The positive role of trading nomades (depicted as Gads tribe) in a situation after humanity had a techo- and eco-collapse. It's not advertising, of course. That guy had shown a natural solution of a problem (among others) long before this thread started.
Regards,
RedAlex

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by RedAlex

one of them Deputy General Solicitor (character resambling our inevitable and respectable Siro),

Dear Alex

i do not wish to discourse with you anymore. please cease mentioning my name, addressing me in writing or speech or anything similar.

mention my name once more and it'll be harassment.

sincerely yours.

[Elok]

Oh, shucks. He's a polite antisemite, isn't that enough for you?