Many, many thanks to arsoys (A. Shetsen) who undertook the translation. The text below is copied from his journal, and the original Russian version can be found in mine.
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Russians who imitate "padonkian" slang in Latin (hinniononpossum, scriptor incendit, scriptor venenum bibe, etc.) are not alone on this globe:

http://community.livejournal.com/latin/276026.html

"On the whole, 45.3% confessed that they find it easier to speak Russian, 44.0% - Ukrainian."

English seems to be the only well-known European language using the letter j for [dʒ].

(I guess Manx and Modern Scots don't qualify for "well-known".)

Do I forget anything?

It came to my mind while discussing things in foxfour's journal.

Which justifies me re-telling some dated news.

dreiviertel says she's found a text evidencing that the syntacticians' favorite model sentence, John beat (up) Pete, was first used no later than in 9th century. Indeed, in its Latin form: Fortis Iohannus multum percussit debilem Petrum or simply Iohannus percussit Petrum.

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"Is E=mc2 a sexed equation?...Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest ( Read more... )

http://www.livejournal.com/community/orthodoxy/265498.html

Via platonicus.

When I was a teenager, I had troubles with perceiving oral English. Actually, I still have them ( Read more... )

In Russian, in my Russian journal:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/uxus/8268.html

BTW, everybody who can help with an English version (perhaps properly abridged) - please do.

Upd.: http://www.

I participated in an interesting discussion of Verner's law in indo_european.