Re: Saprutum website update

Isaac A. Penzev scripsit:

> It shows me once again importance of knowledge of
> cultural background even while working with quite a familiar language. Some
> aspects of Anglo-American culture are (and always will be) a mystery behind
> seven seals for a poor Russian speaker.
Ivan Derzhanski (who writes impeccable English, far better than that of most
native speakers) once posted that he had only just discovered that "triple"
was pronounced with /I/ rather than the /ai/ he had been saying for years.

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