 Poster: A snowHead
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Russia is awake to Hemel Hempstead's new Snow Centre.
This report from RT.Korr.
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| Фанатичным лыжникам, которые не успели накататься на горнолыжных курортах в Альпах, британцы сделали настоящий подарок. В английском городе Хемел-Хемпстед (Hemel Hempstead) в Хардфордшире открывается курорт под названием Snow Centre. Горнолыжный сезон в нем начнется уже 6 мая. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Maybe from Hurtle but not from me!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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David Goldsmith, you are evidently adding to the hive in your hat. Would you like to explain your point or are we supposed to guess?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Хемел-Хемпстед clearly translates to Hemel Hempstead, so that's a start.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It's just a factual report. It's under the heading 'tourism' which makes me smile a bit. Is it really likely that Russian tourists coming to Britain will go to Hemel for a quick slide?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Hurtle, do those characters which look like Latin ones represent the same sounds or different ones? (Eg is 'p' actually pronounced like 'th'?)
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Allow me...
To the fanatic skiers, who did not have time at the mountain-skiing health resorts in the Alps, Britain made a gift. In the English city Of hemel hempsted is opened the health resort by the name snow centre. Mountain-skiing season in it will begin already on May 6.
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Bode Swiller, you illustrate why translation work pays well. 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| Hurtle, do those characters which look like Latin ones represent the same sounds or different ones? (Eg is 'p' actually pronounced like 'th'?) |
Some are similar, some aren't. The A is broadly like an A but, for example, P sounds like R and B sounds like V. My nephew always refers to Moscow as 'Mockba' because that's what it looks like in Cyrillic; but it is in fact pronounced Muskva (accent on last syllable.)
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Hurtle, fascinating. I suspected as much, since I could see no reason why the symbols we use for sounds should be anything other than arbitrary.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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it's gonna be a long summer.....yup 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Στους φανατικούς σκιέρ, που δεν είχαν το χρόνο [nakatatsya] να βουνό-κάνουν σκι θέρετρο υγείας στις Άλπεις, οι Βρετανοί έκαναν ένα παρόν δώρο. Στην αγγλική πόλη [khemel] - [Khempsted] (Hemel του hempstead) μέσα [Khardfordshire] ανοίγεται το θέρετρο υγείας από το όνομα του χιονιού του κέντρου. Να βουνό-κάνει σκι η εποχή σε το θα αρχίσει ήδη στις 6 Μαΐου.
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pistemeister, Is Χεμελ Χεμςτεδ what you're looking for? 
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You know it makes sense.
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It's all Greek to me. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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While we're working on the language, let's not forget that the first journalist in the Snow Centre was from the Russian-owned Evening Standard in London. Spyderman's identified Luftwaffe seagulls from Milton Keynes bombing parked cars nearby and has reminded us that snowHeads arriving on 6 June will be re-enacting the D-day landing of allied troops on the pistes of Normandy.
And the name of the slope at Hemel Hempstead?
Omaha Piste.
There's clearly more to this than meets the eye. Georges Salomon once remarked that his business success with ski products was based on WW1 military strategy, and I shall be wearing a tin helmet on 6 June.
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