i've fallen and i cant say it right...

[im-such-a-slav.livejournal.com]

my dictionary gave two listings for the perfective form of падать: пасть and упасть. this is the first and only time it has done this, so is there a difference between the two? i asked a friend and she said пасть has a negative connotation, but i am still a bit confused. anyone have a better explanation?

also, i need to get a good font for my computer so i can read russian. does anyone know a good free one that i can download. i have windows XP, if that matters.

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[ashalynd.livejournal.com]

Well, probably this program made assumptions that the default locale (you can set it up in Control Panel as well) was Russian.

You can try to do the following:
Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Advanced->Language for non-Unicode programs, select Russian, Apply, restart your computer, see if that helps.

There is also possible to directly edit some entries in Registry but it is a little bit risky if you do not know exactly what you are doing, so I'd suggest try to change your locale first.