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There's a lot of french in tolstoy too, and I believe most of the dialog can be inferred to be in french but is in russian for literary reasons. French was the
by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
There's a lot of french in tolstoy too, and I believe most of the dialog can be inferred to be in french but is in russian for literary reasons. French was the daily home language of the russian imperial aristocracy. They spoke russian with an accent.
- ForHackernews 5mo agoNabokov was famously raised trilingual in Russian, English, and French by his Russian aristocratic family.