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Diagonally?
by selimthegrim 5y ago
Diagonally?
- yznovyak 5y ago"To read diagonally" is a Russian idiom meaning "to skim-read".
- ilammy 5y agoIn Russian "to read diagonally" means "to skim" in English. Like, you don't read left to right, top to bottom, but straight from one corner to the other.
- kergonath 5y agoIn French as well, FWIW.
- number6 5y agoFrench is now in bed with russian? Mont dioaux ;)
- chupasaurus 5y agoIn 19th century, almost every Russian either spoke French fluently, was a priest or couldn't read.
- sorokod 5y agoTolstoy’s “War and Peace” is about 2% French (~40 pages), the language of the Russian aristocracy at the time
- kergonath 5y agoFrance and Russia have been frenemies for a couple of centuries now :)