<div>Hi Peter ,</div>
<div> I hope now the reading problem is solved ( sorry for that , but you are the first to tell me this:) ,,, <br></div>
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<div>You mentioned : "There are hardly any regional differences in<br>pronunciation of the language"( apart from the south )</div>
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<div>Pronunciation (maybe) but about understanding ?</div>
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<div> I used to play with a White Russia girls from Minsk she told me : Russia is so big that people from the east side couldn t understand properly the west and vice versa [just think about farmers ;] ,of course you have still the mainstream language but in general each humans group living in their own regions use a different type of Russian , </div>
<div>the different books from Solzhenitsyn (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn</a> )</div>
<div> that I read told me the same thing ( it s not really the same period I must say but still 'now' is still a chain reaction of the past )so maybe Russians can use the same pronunciation but in general there are still semantics-abstraction made .</div>
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<div>About Europe ... I think Europe is way younger that Russia in Mankind' History ,I agree that Russia existed but Europe I still wonder about it ( no common language yet, even English can not be an option for me cause politically talking Uk is outside Europe or doing the double language, the only thing which can tell something about Europe existence is the money :Euro ) ...</div>
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<div>One advice that i learnt with Russians living in Europe : don t tell a Russian that is European.The most of them are very proud of where they come from ,and it s not Europe by all means ;) </div>
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<div>But all in all I can be wrong cause I never went to Russia ... </div>
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<div> The funny thing about Eurovision is from my own point of view :</div>
<div>We include Russia, North Africa but we do exactly what the Capitalist world wish us to do (kind of MTV awards ???) ... ( I wonder if Russians and north Africans are really conscious about it .I think they are and they adapt themselves to take what it s good for them from Europe but when it s time to share with them something different than music problems occur (gas?) ... )</div>
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<div>I m just laughing in the end cause there is nothing that I can do, except trying to write something about it ... :)</div>
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<div>But Eurovision is funny yes ( what else ? I won t cry for this !!! :-) ...</div>
<div>It will be even more funny to think of a kind of Russian-vision where European countries will be invited ( will they invite us ?? ) to present Europe side in their Russia ? ... what we ( European countries) will do then ? maybe we will bring on stage nuclear submarines and Concorde air planes, or, maybe cheese or bread should be enough to show our power in the history of human kind ? ?? cause the thing is sure Russians will be for a long time ( I hope not for ever) Russians and not Europeans, Russia is not Europe .</div>
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<div>But All in all </div>
<div>The map is not the territory .</div>
<div>And music has no boundaries except in music busyness and space ...</div>
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<div>Cheers and nice subject I must admit :) </div>
<div>Romain</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Peter Korsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com">peter@severity-one.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Romain / rXg schreef:<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Well , it s just the Russian-Vision ;)<br></div>> Eurovision is as usualšvery European ...<br>
<div class="im">> Going to Russia for EUROvision , i think I don t get it ...<br></div>> Where is Chinašthen š??šAt least it will be interesting,some šmusic<br>> fights between communist against old communist ( btw whatšis Russiašnow<br>
> ? )š? hmmmšš,.,,š<br><br>Just one thing, can you start sending e-mails in plain text? They always<br>come in a minute font on my system, and you'll have to explain all those<br>weird characters.<br><br>Anyway, apart from the southern states, Russia has a remarkably<br>
homogeneous population. There are hardly any regional differences in<br>pronunciation of the language (again, apart from the south), and on<br>their side of the Chinese border the people are blonde.<br><br>But Eurovision is about the European Broadcasting Area, which is<br>
significantly larger than Europe itself:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebu</a><br>
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