Russian jokes (Russian: анекдо́ты, translit. anekdoty, lit. ‘anecdotes’), the most popular form of Russian humor, are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line. Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plot twists.
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The following list is a comparison of basic Proto-Slavic vocabulary and the corresponding reflexes in the modern languages, for assistance in understanding the discussion in Proto-Slavic and History of the Slavic languages.The word list is based on the Swadesh word list, developed by the linguist Morris Swadesh, a tool to study the …
The top 1,000 vocabulary words have been carefully chosen to represent difficult but common words that appear in everyday academic and business writing.
Archetypal/Myth Criticism. A form of criticism based largely on the works of C. G. Jung (YOONG) and Joseph Campbell (and myth itself). Some of the college’s major figures include Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson, Philip Wheelwright, Leslie Fiedler, Northrop Frye, Maud Bodkin, and G. Wilson Knight.
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Russian Philosophy. This article provides a historical survey of Russian philosophers and thinkers. It emphasizes Russian epistemological concerns rather than ontological and ethical concerns, hopefully without neglecting or disparaging them. After all, much work in ethics, at least during the Soviet period, strictly supported the state, such that …
Learn “Set” Vocabulary, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs! Are you all set to learn English? In this lesson, you’ll learn common ways to use set as a verb, adjective, and as a noun. You’ll even learn phrasal verbs and idioms with set.I’ve chosen the most common ways we use the word set in English-speaking countries. This is an easy lesson that will teach you some great vocabulary …
