I know we all experienced this on one forum or another. I know the story has more to do with Internet Forum behavior than Trains but I thought the Trains community would get a good chuckle out of reading it.........how far things can go with a language and cultural barrier to over come......
"The Foreign Ministry is far from the only part of official Russia that has trouble understanding contemporary humor.
Back in May, prosecutors in Rostov questioned the organizer of a local spelling bee about whether he has any connections to so-called "grammar Nazis."
Grammar Nazi, of course, is a slang term for somebody who habitually -- and often annoyingly -- corrects other people's grammar. In recent years, it has developed into a satirical Internet meme, which uses imagery that vaguely resembles swastikas.
But prosecutors in Rostov didn't get the joke. They interrogated spelling bee organizer Aleksei Pavlovsky, asking him whether he believed people who make spelling and grammatical mistakes should be exterminated. "
"...But prosecutors in Rostov didn't get the joke. They interrogated spelling bee organizer Aleksei Pavlovsky, asking him whether he believed people who make spelling and grammatical mistakes should be exterminated... "
Maybe around here they should be loaded in those White Boxcars w/chains, then hauled off to be re-educated in South Dakota with Murphy, and his buddy Spel Czech .
That's what happens when you go Russian to judgment.
ACY That's what happens when you go Russian to judgment.
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