Andrew Davie wrote: Once you knou the alphabet, the technical parts are easy, since there are no native Russian words for anything above the level of plowing a turnip field. Everything else is from German, French or English converted to Cyrillic spelling. The grammar is a bitch, but it's not a high priority in technical documentation. In any language. (I can read Russian technical stuff, but unlike the romance and germanic languages, I can't order a beer without a dictionary with a large grammar component -- my father-in-law is slowly teaching me, but at past eighty he's teaching me more Lithuanian than Russian, and the words for seducing a girl in either language is probably beyond my remaining learning curve -- good thing I'm married and don't need to sweat the fine points). -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.