http://wolk_off.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] wolk-off.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] learn_russian 2007-10-30 06:26 pm (UTC)

>In oral speech people tend to avoid participles and subject clauses altogether.

Not only that -- even in my high school days back in the 1970s I was taught that participles (and subject clauses) are strictly a feature of written Russian, not oral speech at all. So, people not just avoid that -- this is what distinguishes written Russian.
Which does not mean that one has to overemploy participles in written Russian; and in the example given by the original poster, participles are certainly overemployed.

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