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[defying-elphaba.livejournal.com]

Here is an example of my written Russian; what do you think?

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[igor-tkachenko.livejournal.com]

ОТЛИЧНО!

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

I think it looks really nice.

The Russians would probably tell you it doesn't look "Russian" enough. But it's really legible and pretty. :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

In fact it looks russian for me ;)

[aleks-grey.livejournal.com]

Очень хороший почерк! =)
Excellent.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

It is nice :)

Just one correction: ни с того ни с сЕго

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

I aspire to someday have a Russian tell me my handwriting might pass (even in a drunken haze) as anything other than American :)

It comes of not having a rigorous instruction of "proper" handwriting as a child, I think.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

You may do the same - show it here and we'll tell you :)

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Heck no!! :) Not in a million years! I only torment my Russian professor with my handwriting :)

[belacane.livejournal.com]

it's really legible, and pretty, but it looks very american in it's big loopy, kind of 'i'm a girl writing' look.

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

It is Russian enough.

[wildash.livejournal.com]

Молодец! -)

[svyatogor.livejournal.com]

actually, it somewhat resembles my own handwriting (when I try to make it readable for others)

[freedomcry.livejournal.com]

You certainly know better than I do how a typical American handwriting looks like, but I don't find anything un-Russian about this one, so maybe одно другому не мешает.

[gordin.livejournal.com]

Looks perfect.
I'm serious.
I write much, much worse.

[greeny-world.livejournal.com]

That's great!!!!

[espejo.livejournal.com]

Well, i think it's really really Russian! Well done!!!

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

Looks like a Russian wrote it. :-D Now if I can get my handwriting to look like that. What's giving me problems is ф ж - are they meant to be written in one stroke?

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

What I meant by that one stroke thing - are they meant to be written without lifting up the pen?

[slim-sh4d3.livejournal.com]

Классно! Очень и очень по-русски. I'm tellin ya :)

Except for the Russian letter "в"... Never seen any Russians writing it like that.

[slim-sh4d3.livejournal.com]

And two more things... 1st: we don't write the letter "ё" since it's rarely used even in classical Russian literature. We just write "е" instead, but the way we read the word is the same, as if the letter "ё" was still there.
2nd: the word "сяго" is not used in normal speech or text (of any kind). It is a vernacular word that is now used VERY-VERY rarely (i'm not talking about any jokes etc., cuz in these cases it could be used to achieve an effect of country speech) in the far corners of our big-big country :)). Just use "сего" and you'll be fine :).

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Come on!

I write ё all the time.

(I did drop it one time but then I was proof-reading the texts for a publishing house - and was told nobody cancelled this rule.

You may object that they are omitted in some books but that's on the concience of the publishers ;) )

[slim-sh4d3.livejournal.com]

No. Write them anyway you like. There are no specific rules of writing ANY letter.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Sorry, conscience

[slim-sh4d3.livejournal.com]

You see, there is an etiquette in normal Russian texts of any kind (especially newspapers, literature etc.), so the use of this letter just shows people how much you don't respect that etiquette. You might as well continue writing it, but I strongly advise you to throw this habit away and start writing it the way most of the people do. Yes, there are some reversionists that think that writing this letter gives them some kind of a charming. But it's not like that. This letter simply annoys intelligent and educated people.

[dair-spb.livejournal.com]

> This letter simply annoys intelligent and educated people.

WHY??? And since when?