>>>>Here is a link right to the point of the discussion (unfortunately, it's in Russian):
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>>>>http://www.yevrey.com/shtetle/yiddish_1.shtml
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>>>More useful than your usual post then, eh, Naomi?
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>>Not sure I got your joke <g>
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>Well a page full of Russian, written in cyrillic, to me is as much use as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition.
>
>All the same, it makes more sense than your usual posts, in English :-)

Nope, it's that the guys who maintain that page didn't even put a proper header in their HTML. It doesn't display cyrillic like normal cyrillic sites do - it displays unintelligible characeters. I don't feel like guessing which codepage would that be - W-1251, or Koi-8R, or what.