On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 15:17, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > When I took Russian in college, we did all the funny sounds and the > funny writing (both typeset and hand-written) the first week. And it > was never much of a problem after that. I either never knew or had forgotten that you took Russian in college. My father taught Russian one there; was he your teacher? You probably told me before, one way or the other, and I forgot.