Stress is important

[david-us.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading an interesting book entitled "A Practical Handbook on Stress in Russian."

They had some example sentences in the introduction that I found very interesting.

How would you interpret these sentences?

Я беру и мою тарелку.

Стрелки на башенных часах стояли неподвижно.

Or, the ever popular: 

Я хочу писать.  :)

Depending on where you place the stress, the meaning of the sentence completely changes!

Can you think of some other interesting sentences like these?

This sort of reminds me of humorous English sentences like:

We must polish the Polish furniture.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

Translation help

[cle-fable.livejournal.com]

Hi guys,

I wonder if you could help me with a translation of a newspaper article.  It contains some phrases which I'm not familiar with.  And if you notice anything I haven't picked up on I'd be greatful too.

Прощание с капитализмом

Семен НОВОПРУДСКИЙ

Вот и кончился второй русский капитализм.
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Thanks for your help.  Also sorry for the bold all the way through, it got stuck on it for some reason.

 

 [YUN1]World community pertains to peace wikipedia

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 [YUN1]Take charge means bring the situation in hand.

 

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 [YUN1]Don’t confuse with Alpha Group!

Vocab Question

[dezelina.livejournal.com]

Hi there,

I have a question about the verbs "to confess" (признаваться и признаться) If you use the verbs + в + the prepositional case, what exactly are you saying in English? Are you confessing to something?

Thanks in advance for your help!