wherein we develop a linguistic turn

[avva]

From this post on, this journal is English-only.

Sorry folks, and I know this must seem abrupt, but I've just had it up to here with the Russian blogosphere and all its histrionics. It's like one bad trip after another, with the deafening roar of "yandex top" dumbing down everything in sight. Drama queens, crazy people, flame wars about less than nothing - I can only take so much of this bullshit, and seven years seems as good a point to stop as any other. Seven years of this crap, I can't believe I made it that long. I've been struggling to write in Russian anyway, it doesn't come naturally to me. English is actually my native language - I grew up in Ukraine, but my folks come from Worcestershire and we've always spoken the Queen's English at home. It's a long story... like, take my last name, "Vorobey"? - that's just the best my dad could come up with in Russian that sounded anything like his ancestral name of Warraughby. My spoken Russian is just terrible - accent so thick even people who have known me for years have trouble understanding what I'm saying. So I've been thinking, you know, what's the point of all this pretending? And guess what, there isn't any. So I'm calling it quits.

Please comment in English, Russian comments will get deleted and their authors banned.

Comments

[aneta.livejournal.com]

nice joke :)

[inka.livejournal.com]

up till "English is acually my native language", I bought it

[avva.livejournal.com]

Damn, I knew no one will believe me. That's the price you pay for pretending for so long. You know, some days I kinda have trouble believing it myself?

[avva.livejournal.com]

That's the spirit!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_navi_/]

Will read you either way, keep up posting!
Oh, and extra thanks for the programming puzzles.

[avva.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll definitely keep posting. In fact, now that I can write in English and don't have to look up every second word in the damn dictionary, I'll probably post more often too. It's been too much of a chore for way too long.

[ex-gavarun.livejournal.com]

oh, third time today

[uncle-becher.livejournal.com]

Hello, this is Albanian virus. Please start using my language ASAP.

[shabunc.livejournal.com]

Итс симс ту ми зэт фёрст эйприл хэз бин олреди (хм, хау ит воз, хау ит воз) пассд.

[savanda.livejournal.com]

Нот йет.

[vladius-osso.livejournal.com]

Proudly the 1st to comment in English.

Update

[vladius-osso.livejournal.com]

Top 10 and nothing else matters.

[ex-stormshi.livejournal.com]

your profile is still in Russian

[avva.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll get to fixing that soon. I've been so excited over finally reaching a decision, I couldn't think of anything else until I posted here.

[pronn.livejournal.com]

Auf Deutsch zu kommentieren ist ab heute auch verboten?)

Sour cream or Worcestershire sauce

[(Anonymous)]

I bet you also prefer Worcestershire sauce over Sour cream...

Re: Sour cream or Worcestershire sauce

[avva.livejournal.com]

I hate that Worcestershire sauce crap. It's a cheap Johnny-come-lately knockoff someone's inflicted on our land in the 19th century. Well guess what, I can trace my ancestry at least back to the 12th century Warraughbys, do you think I'd care about the stupid sauce?

[angerona.livejournal.com]

I think you mean "deafening roar," not "defeaning roar" (whatever that is).

[avva.livejournal.com]

yeah, what a silly typo! Thanks, fixed.

[blades-of-grass.livejournal.com]

I was told that by tradition April Fool jokes should only be perpetrated until the noon of April Fool day. I guess the rule does make sense: no one wants pranks during lunch anyway - too serious a matter for the descendants of hobbits - and after lunch everyone has something to do.

But whatever, man, I say. If it's a good one.

[kutuz-off.livejournal.com]

Googling for "Warraughby" results only in this entry. You might as well become Russian, since you have no ancestral history to preserve.

[avva.livejournal.com]

Hey, guess what company I work for!

[oxfv.livejournal.com]

I don't seem to see you switching your english-only standalone blog to Russian - when is it coming?

On a related note, I suggest you switch your blog to green color font, to support Google's energy-saving initiatives. Switching to English as a better character-compact language then Russian is a applaudable first step in that direction.

[kitp.livejournal.com]

לא מצחיק

[mariasokolova.livejournal.com]

Shame, shame, shame on you for betraying your native land. To hell with Ukraine, its very name means "outskirts" in Russian, but you probably don't know that, you English speaker. Fine, ban me. At least I was honest.

[sandy (from livejournal.com)]

You just don't know the last Russian discovery about Ukraine. From now it means not "outskirts" but "stealing", because they still Russian gas!
Dokolie?!

[yan.livejournal.com]

сори ай кинот тайп ин инглиш, ноу инглиш леттерз он май киборд хи -- ват сот овинглиш дей спик ин квинс?!

[ex-stormshi.livejournal.com]

just copy-paste letters one by one, that's what I do, and it works fine

[yucca.livejournal.com]

I suspect your ancestors actually came from a small community of Vorro Bay in California.
Anyway, this will be a nice challenge - translating the original verse "Что мы знаем о лисе?..." into English.

[oxfv.livejournal.com]

What do we know of chess?
Nothing, and some even less.

[volgar.livejournal.com]

Huh! It's actually very close to my linguistic turn (http://volgar.livejournal.com/100212.html).

[a7sharp9.livejournal.com]

Props to ya, mon. Tak's courage t' do what you done. I still got a lon' way t' go ta reclaim in me heart the proud colours of the MacCaskill clan.

[avva.livejournal.com]

Just get to it, dude. Take my word for it... the truth shall set you free.

[mme-n-b.livejournal.com]

And a happy April Fool's day to you!

[orleanz.livejournal.com]

that's a good one

[dimrub.livejournal.com]

As I said, third time's a charm. This one is by far the best out of the three :).

[elenat.livejournal.com]

:)