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The threshold
What this language does
Russian declines, which frees word order and therefore makes it expressive. And it opposes two verbal aspects — action as process, action as completion — where French has to fall back on paraphrase.
The untranslatable
A pain of the soul with no identifiable cause — Nabokov held that no English word rendered its shade.
Hello
Здравствуйте · Zdravstvouïtie
“be in good health” — you do not greet, you wish someone survival
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