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Metaphoric Country Names Posted by Maria on Dec 1, 2014
Russian is notoriously intolerant of repeating words within a sentence or in adjacent sentences. As a result, elaborate circumlocutions are used to say the same thing. A specific case is metaphors that refer to countries. As always, I will link to sources for words in languages I don’t know. All usage examples come from the Russian National Corpus…
Writing about Russia for Dummies – Part II Posted by Maria on Nov 20, 2014
We are continuing our discussion from last week about things to keep in mind if you plan to feature Russia or Russians in your creative work. History and Governance Mixing Up Historical Periods The territory that is now Russia (and the neighboring territories that are not) has undergone many transformations in terms of its national…