>U nas sdes' v cincinnatovke tol'ko nachinaut ponimat'. No v bol'shom gorode NY russkiy yazuk uzhe genofon.

Da, ran'she mozhno bylo idti po ulitse (I mean Manhattan, of course) i spokoyno skazat' chto-nibud' edakoe; a seychas prikhoditsya snachala smotret' po storonam.