Re: [Cz-L] Languages studied in Cernauti in Liceul #3

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

True, mathematical prose IS easier than poetry or newspaper language.
BUT, my father also taught High-school in Ukrainian in 1940-41
and in 1944-45 worked with Russians, who spoke no other language.

Mimi
 

> In <C3A7A6C8.8F5B%mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, on 01/07/2008
> at 09:52 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> said:
>
>> In 1940 he also learned Ukrainian and Russian well enough,
>> to translate a Mathematics textbook from Russian to Ukrainian and be
>> awarded a prize for the translation.
>
> Well, I could read Mathematics in French, but a French newspaper or novel
> would probably have been beyond me. Mathematical prose is far easier to
> read and to translate than general prose. As for poetry, forget about it
> :-(


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