You spoke Russian before you spoke English. Are there any good Russian sayings that we don't have in English? There's one great one that I love which basically means "The eyes fear, but the hands do." Your mind and your eyes see something and they fear it, but your body goes through and does the work. – Regina Spektor … nerve.com interview.
…. Something like … “fear is an illusion, reality is in the doing” I like that … very very much.
For my money, nobody cusses like the Russians. I know that's not widely-regarded as an accomplishment, but it's an element of language that I find impressive. Cussing in Russian not only *sounds* vulgar, it's the most creatively vulgar cussing I've ever heard.
ReplyDeleteRather than saying "you're pulling my leg," I heard a Russian expression that translated as "you're hanging noodles on my ears." I think it's great!
ReplyDeleteI wish my husband still spoke Russian, but he let it go when he was a kid and doesn't remember any of it. Too bad- the Russians get all the good stuff. :)
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a community that was trilingual, for lack of a better term. It had a large Hispanic and Russian orthodox community. We even had bilingual classes in elementary school. However the only words I knew in either language were of the 'vulgar' variety.
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