My Tetis < your Papa Part 1
anonymous
April 22 2009, 15:48:55 UTC
In 1990, only 30% of the population of Riga were able to speak Latvian. Russian is still at least equally important in the large cities. Today, 80% of the Latvian population are fluent in Latvian, but those are mostly living in rural areas. And in large urban areas both languages are used as lingua franca. Recently the Latvian government passed a law that required shops to make it possible for non-Russian-speaking Latvians to buy their stuff there... meaning that the staff had to be able to speak Latvian at least fairly well... He had known that something was off that day. Something was terribly off. As if someone had cut one of his hands off, or one foot, or anything else... Something that had always been there wasn't there anymore. He had walked through the streets of his capital, and
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My Tetis < your Papa Part 2
anonymous
April 22 2009, 19:17:07 UTC
The republic Komi is a federal subject of Russia. Located in the very North. The Komi are a Finno-Permic ethnic group, but only 25% of the population are Komi, most are Russian. It became a autonomous republic in 1929 (So lol, much older than Riga...)But he could not always be there and look after her. There was so much work to do, meetings to attend, conferences, everything. And then, one day when he had told Riga that he would be away to a world conference and not be back until the day after tomorrow, and that she should be a good child and behave and please, please not leave the house, she did exactly that. It was early morning when she slipped out of the house, run over the dewy grass and away, away. The world was so large and beautiful and she hated how she was always restricted to just one place. Not that she wanted to go anywhere in particular, or that she had not liked her home, or anything. But she just... Wanted to see more, at least more of her father's country. And suddenly, she stood in front of another house, a house
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My Tetis < your Papa Part 3
anonymous
April 24 2009, 19:44:15 UTC
Two days later, Lithuania had locked himself into the bathroom and Poland was nowhere to find, Latvia was about to get hysteric and Russia ... also hysteric. Just the other way round.
The two nations had met at the door of the formerly married nation's house (actually Poland's, but over the last months Liet had been there more often than at his own house), and neither of them had really been in a mood to take much notice of the other. Latvia was too worried about the situations as a whole, his shaking had changed into something like a little earthquake and he looked more nervous than ever, even back in Soviet times. And Russia was... A mix of confused, plain jealous, confused, stunned, confused, furious, confused, smiling at the whole situation.
Liet had had Poland's baby, and it had been VilniusHowever that had happened, it had caused the greatest uproar among the nations since Germany had invaded Poland. Or longer
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Re: My Tetis < your Papa Part 3
anonymous
April 27 2009, 17:47:20 UTC
Oh dear, dear Latvia. I'm hoping there is more of this to come, because somewhere in the cracktacular premise of this, you managed to yank pretty badly at my heartstrings.
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Recently the Latvian government passed a law that required shops to make it possible for non-Russian-speaking Latvians to buy their stuff there... meaning that the staff had to be able to speak Latvian at least fairly well... He had known that something was off that day. Something was terribly off. As if someone had cut one of his hands off, or one foot, or anything else... Something that had always been there wasn't there anymore. He had walked through the streets of his capital, and ( ... )
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Okay I will^^
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The two nations had met at the door of the formerly married nation's house (actually Poland's, but over the last months Liet had been there more often than at his own house), and neither of them had really been in a mood to take much notice of the other. Latvia was too worried about the situations as a whole, his shaking had changed into something like a little earthquake and he looked more nervous than ever, even back in Soviet times. And Russia was... A mix of confused, plain jealous, confused, stunned, confused, furious, confused, smiling at the whole situation.
Liet had had Poland's baby, and it had been VilniusHowever that had happened, it had caused the greatest uproar among the nations since Germany had invaded Poland. Or longer ( ... )
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Well. And Poland and the chain letters, too.
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I think it would have a greater impact if you wrote the text that was in Russian in Russian.
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