Sochi gets 2014 Winter Olympics
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Sochi gets 2014 Winter Olympics
by Мастер » Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:40 am
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by Heid the Ba » Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:38 am
Unlike most contenders they are at least building infrastructure and locating everything in a relatively small area. Most Olympics are in a number of small resorts, usually at the head of a one road in valley. Turin was the classic example, hellish transport difiiculties.
Sochi are trying to put as much as they can within walking/short bus ride distance.
Sochi are trying to put as much as they can within walking/short bus ride distance.
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by umop ap!sdn » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:04 am
The competitors from Japan are going to like this; whenever anyone asks which way they need to go, they can point in the direction and say "sochira Sochi ni". 
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by troubleagain » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:43 pm
I need one of these smileys for when someone makes a joke about math or furrin' languages or any of that other hard stuff.
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by Lance » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:01 pm
troubleagain wrote:I need [strike]one of[/strike] these smileys [added]...
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by troubleagain » Wed Jul 11, 2007 3:03 pm
Lance wrote:troubleagain wrote:I need [strike]one of[/strike] these smileys [added]...
Done!
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by umop ap!sdn » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:46 pm
Actually I had sochira ("that way") and kochira ("this way") mixed up. 
"Ni" just means towards, at, or in.
And furrin languages are not hard! :P (Well, other than Greek anyway....)
"Ni" just means towards, at, or in.
And furrin languages are not hard! :P (Well, other than Greek anyway....)
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by Lance » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:51 pm
I hear Icelandic is a bit tough.
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by Мастер » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:34 pm
Lance wrote:I hear Icelandic is a bit tough.
It must be hard to find people with whom one can practice. Unless you happen to live in Iceland.
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by umop ap!sdn » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:39 pm
Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:English is pretty tough.
That's true though. Especially the spelling and pronunciation; I for one would advocate a more eghotiont writing system.
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