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Backwoods Sleuth1/15/2020 1:24:12 pm PST

re: #66 Belafon

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h/t balloon-juice.com

Slava says:

It’s a crazy exchange, providing the circumstances and the characters involved, but I can’t imagine any Russian who would read this word and think murder or kidnapping.

but earlier Slava says:

Not only does he omit all punctuation and use the completely wrong form of the pronoun “me,” he can’t even spell Lutsenko’s first or last name properly.
This is the Russian of someone who really hasn’t used it in a long time and who was never well educated to begin with.

my emphasis in both comments contradict each other