http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/06/kid-doodles/ The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:20:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/06/kid-doodles/comment-page-1/#comment-145397 stalker Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:02:52 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/06/kid-doodles/#comment-145397 That particular "gramota" (birchbark letter) is the one most often reproduced in Russian history textbooks. Another one that is mentioned marginally less often looks like this: http://gramoty.ru/index.php?no=46&act=full&key=bb ...and goes, approximately, "an ignorant one wrote this, a thoughtless one said this, and you who reads this is [presumably expletive fragment torn off]". Or, in modern parlance, "IF U READ THIS UR A FAG". That particular “gramota” (birchbark letter) is the one most often reproduced in Russian history textbooks. Another one that is mentioned marginally less often looks like this:
http://gramoty.ru/index.php?no=46&act=full&key=bb
…and goes, approximately, “an ignorant one wrote this, a thoughtless one said this, and you who reads this is [presumably expletive fragment torn off]“. Or, in modern parlance, “IF U READ THIS UR A FAG”.

]]>