[Sca-cooks] Russian (was Re: Accidental french) - OT

[Daniel Myers]

On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 01:34 PM, Gorgeous Muiredach wrote:

> At 12:33 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> When I was taking Russian at Howard, our professor had us sing this,
>> to the
>> tune of Frere Jaques
>>
>> "Ya ne znayou, Ya ne znayou
>> nichevo, nichevo
>> nichevo ne znayou, nichevo ne znayou
>> Harascho! Harascho!"
>
> Ok, I am the last person to complain about non English on the list,
> however, I do have a small request:
>
> SHARE THE FUNNY!!!  :-)
>
> If you post in a language, it would be helpful that a small attempt at
> translation be made for those of us who are linguistically
> disadvantaged.  I only speak 5 languages fluently, one of them is not
> "really" a written language...  :-)  Thanks

I the funny part (to me at least) is the image of a class full of
students singing the following in Russian:

"I don't know, I don't know
nothing, nothing
know nothing, know nothing
Good! Good!"

So what's the "not really" written language that you speak?

- Doc


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