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December 28, 2006

RYN: I will be in NYC til the 2nd! Much Love, Katie

enjoy the trip !!!!!

December 29, 2006

Lovely picture. Live life to the fullest, and come back with lots of photos and stories to tell. xxx

December 29, 2006

safe travels.

RYN: No, I’ve been sick, and choosing to rest my wrist. I’ll get to your email sometime soonish.

January 5, 2007

Come back now.

you need a new entry chehov or chekhov?

oh and would you look at that, ZING, before I even got your note, you got an email. 😉 if it’s chehov, then no, i haven’t read any.

that doesn’t make sense, though, because there’s no “h” sound in russian, so it’s GOTTA be chekhov. probably spelled chexob in the cyrillic alphabet, with the ch obviously being the hook-like symbol…. i don’t get cyrillic on the computer here at work, so I can’t even name it proper, but you know what I mean.

See, if you pronounce the “x” in Russian as an “h” in hat, then you’re actually being Ukrainian, not Russian. To transliterate the Cyrllic “x” in the Latin alphabet, it’d more more like “kh”, because the x definitely had a hard sound that’s vocalized at the uvula. Technically, in English, the “h” in hat shouldn’t even come close to reaching the uvula. It should be a purely aspirated sound fromthe voicebox, a sound that results solely because of the slight constriction of espohogeal muscles. If the uvula moves at all, it should only be to let air pass through. Meanwhile, the “x” in Russian definitely has the back of your throat touch the uvula, producing an entirely different aspirated consonant. Can you tell I studied Russian linguistics? So yeah, it’s Chekhov in English, which if you kind of meld the k and h together, it produces that Russian ‘x’ sound. It’s like how you say “choral” in English. Ch = kh, where c is a hard consonant. GAWD I’m a dork. And ZING, reply email.

prolly won’t get to your email til tonight or tmw. i got busy here now.

January 6, 2007

love this picture. did you take it? the contrast is beautiful.

January 8, 2007

It really is lovely. Thattagirl!