TOM EATON: Russian and ANC jokes: we’re back in the USSR
A puppet is still a puppet and one like Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is straight out of the Middle Ages
12 September 2022 - 19:31
Back in my undergraduate days I studied Russian for a year and learned three things.
The first was that accent and attitude get you shamefully far: if, like me, you can affect a world-weary manner and follow it up with a series of murmured zeds and softened d’s, as if Count Dracula and Borat were muttering to themselves while eating succulent plums, you will sound vastly more proficient than you are...
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