I am really enjoying my adventure into the Russian language.
I find the words for animals are very pretty.
Bird is птица which sounds like peteetsa
to western ears. The word for
deer оленъ is a woman’s name in
Britain, that is Eileen. The little bee
is пчела which roughly sounds like
another name, Petula. What a happy thing to turn off the T.V. and spend some
time on something as worthwhile as learning another language. My chances of meeting a Russian speaker are
not great where I live, deep in the countryside, but no doubt I could do
something about this if I really tried. Just as I had written this I went off
to discover if I could watch Russian T.V. online and found Kino 1 TV.RU. That
is not quite like talking to someone face to face but I think it might well
help me. I seem to be falling in love with Russia. So far it is with its history and
language. I know little about modern day
Russia. That is a further area to
explore.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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