When I was learning Russian, we were taught that a large portion of Russian is idiomatic and cannot be translated literally. For example, дождь идёт translates literally as "rain takes a walk," but really means "It is raining." This makes learning Russian even that much more difficult than English, not to mention the complex grammar in Russian with multiple declensions and cases for nouns and adjectives (even more than in Latin) and multiple ways of conjugating verbs, not counting all the irregular verbs. We were also taught that most Russians do not speak proper Russian - mainly because it is too difficult. English is much simpler and easier, and still native English speakers often do not speak proper English. It's too bad that Latin is not taught as much in schools as it used to be.

That's another one of those common sayings that I've said and heard without giving it much thought - Thanks.

I just noticed that there doesn't seem to be a way to 'like' the OP's post, I think one used to be able to do that. So thank you Jim. There must be different configurations of The Kitchen Table, because I am able to "like" OP posts. One other person liked his post besides me.

For me, every day is salad day...at lunch that is...