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[redneonred.livejournal.com]

please. please please please. this is written in an essay 'katalog unificirovannyh strojtel'nyh izdelij' and though i have an idea of the spelling it just doesn't seem to work. would anyone be able to help? thank you.

switching between ты and вы

[lovimoment.livejournal.com]

I saw a sign the other day, an ad for a cell phone company: "Подключи друга и получите $10."
[Translation: Sign up (2nd person singular) and receive (2nd person plural) ten dollars.]

I know this is ad-speak, but I'm wondering about the grammaticality of this. Does this look wrong to a native speaker?

Also, why are some ads in 2nd person singular and some in 2nd person plural? Is one or the other better?

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[gnomygnomy.livejournal.com]

Hey, y'all, I have a friend in St. Petersburg, and he gave me the telephone number where he can be reached. I'm kinda eager to practice phone etiquette, but I wonder if now would be a bad time. He's staying in a dorm, where apparently it's everyone's business if the phone rings. What do you think, 7AM a little too early for the kids?

And also, could someone brush me up on how to ask for someone on the phone? What is it, "Может (person's name in dative??)"

Thanks, guys!