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Re: Another Russian Question

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 19, 2001, 1:38
> > > So he asked me, "kak tvoja familija", and > > I, thinking in Serbian, said, "dobro...." with a bit of a confused look on > > my face. =) > > So fill us poor nonslavophones in on the joke. >
Oh, sorry. In Russian "familija" means "surname" and in Serbian it means "family", so he asked "what's your surname" and I answered "well..."