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@Vitaly yeah i mean your guys

i don't think suicide bombers are targetting me specifically :)

i have full confidence in their air defences tbh

they showed me the SAM battery. i was reassured. i was safe there

riding a toy tricycle

::)

i mean of course Vitaly, who said the Russian SE wouldn't gain enough support

woohoo and you said it wouldn't happen!!

awwwwww :)

here are some narwhals to speed you to rest: a.yfrog.com/img736/6163/vs9rya.jpg

bonne nuit, spokoynoy nochi

@Vitaly wow, what a picture

@Vitaly wow hilarity! cheers

well i'm out, mahnax you can have my throne

@Cerberus Who won it?

Ah maybe it's really funny. To them anyway.

I don't understand what is going on there tbh.

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Well thanks anyway I thought that might be the case!

Yeah of course there is a relative difference between how offensive the equivalent words are...

Sorry to have bothered you for that.

Is that it, purely just an offensive word?

Well a name actually, is this a joke name: хуйштейн?

Sorry for waking you Vitaly but I have a question about a Russian word.

Btw does anybody know what that dotted line means?

Let's see if that works...

@Vitaly @Vitaly @Vitaly

@Cerberus If I quote the bard at least I can be certain nobody will downvote me.

Yeah, and it is in this sense that the answer is wrong.

There is all sorts of handwaving going on, just as it is with the rules about the subject always being in the nominative case.

For me it is about a concrete and specific thing.

@Cerberus Why do you keep trying to undefine terms? It's no way to conduct an argument.

Quite clearly if you use a certain form with more socially distant people than those close to you and I call this a social register, just a very basic thing, you are saying you can't agree on those terms and make a distinction between that and me saying something is incorrect?

It's not so hard

You don't speak to everyone in the same way do you?

@Cerberus Seriously?

@Cerberus Well it's none of those, it's social register.

Because I'd never say it's wrong. Just that if a friend spoke to me in that way I'd consider it a bit odd.

@Cerberus This is not even stylistically inadvisable. It's just a matter of register. You can disagree about that but I have seen no evidence given against it.

@Cerberus It doesn't matter about the definition of grammar. Whatever the justification, here something has been deemed incorrect. I can't reconcile that with stylistic advice about which form should be preferred over the other.

It may be indicative of the status of this style of speech but none of that can be explored if it is dismissed as incorrect grammar.

@Cerberus I am attributing your comments to you. That it isn't modern, that it's funny language used only by politicians.

@Cerberus What? This grammatical form appears in Shakespeare and is still in everyday usage. Now it's wrong because Grammar Girl says so?

@Cerberus I expect so

@Cerberus Like grammar girl. Who implies that people use this form because they are 'confused'. They are not confused or wrong, they are just speaking naturally and invalidating that particular notional grammar rule.

it's perfectly normal to speak that way. it just sounds reserved, perhaps even polite for example to switch you with yourself. it's common spoken English. they would just confuse learners with stupid rules.

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Хорошо. Я предлагаю - здесь мы говорым толко по-русский. Договорились?

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what's the Russian for 'narwhal'?