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What country is that Marc? If you don't mind my asking...

English is a mongrel language if ever there was one... We lifted from Hindu too... Shampoo, pajamas and others...

EMG, funny thing about 'restaurant' and Russian... the Cyrillic screws with English speakers because you think you know what the letters are from the Latin alphabet we use... key word is 'think'. It's written: Pictope... Americans think 'Pick-toe-pay' means restaurant in Russian... but in Cyrillic, P = R, C = S... it's 'Ristore' (Rees-stow-ray'). I am sure some of the Russian speakers here could chime in with a few chuckles at westerners eating in 'picktopays'... And more Russian/French/Restaurant fun... Bistro... French word right? Nope... Russian. It comes from the Napoleonic wars, Cossack mercenaries. Bistra means 'fast' or 'quickly'... they kept asking for food more quickly because they were short on time 'Bistra! Bistra!'... so French 'fast food' restaurants of the day became... Bistros. Just some random linguistic trivia for the day... (I speak some Russian but am far from fluent, still, glad I learned what I did and enjoy the occasional chance to practice)

Remember, English is a Germanic language... yet we use a ton of Latin in English a capite ad calcem, ipso facto. We use it ad nauseum even. et cetera, et cetera... Other languages use Latin too... Russian is no different.

Cool to see, I just wish the public could check it out... Hell, I enjoy watching the constant over flights of A-10's out here. But think I might grab a book, set up my hammock somewhere with decent visibility and get some pics of them flying for my fellow air geeks here. I know _I_ don't see Sabres in the air often... well, not outside of DCS anyway...

I live in Tucson, not far from Davis-Monthan, and apparently they are doing their Heritage Flight Training right now... Saw 2 F-86 Sabres flying in formation with an F-22... having bought (and loving) the F-86 module for DCS I was pretty stoked to see that. It's not open to the public, so I can't go on base and get up close to them, but I certainly have enjoyed seeing them (and others) in the air. I will try to snap some photos next time they fly by. P-51's too (And I have that module as well... actually I have a few ;) ) So happy days in Tucson for aviation geeks... Been meaning to register here, and thought that was a cool enough thing to see that others here would appreciate it. Now, I need to fire up DCS and take a Sabre up... if you'll excuse me.. (Link of what's going on for those interested... hmmm how can I fake being a member of the press to get out there Monday...) http://www.dm.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123338129