Re: RPI Hockey 2019 - 2020: Nordic Combined
The language requirement for Science majors has been eliminated at RPI since then.
I don't recall that. I would have been eligible for French but would have steered away from it. As to Russian, I had the same reaction you did. The different alphabet would have caused me the same trouble as it did in Hebrew. Then again, a few months ago I translated a letter written by my great-great-grandmother to my great-great-grandfather supposedly in 1821, She had found out that day that she was promised in marriage to him, They had not met yet. The letter is not in Hebrew or Yiddish but in High German using the Hebrew alphabet. (I did cheat since I also have a transcription in old German script written by my great-grandfather, probably for the benefit of my grandfather and his siblings.) FWIW, here is the original https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/r....asp?key=75219. I did not get a satisfactory answer to my question.
Sorry for going even further off topic.
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I don't recall that. I would have been eligible for French but would have steered away from it. As to Russian, I had the same reaction you did. The different alphabet would have caused me the same trouble as it did in Hebrew. Then again, a few months ago I translated a letter written by my great-great-grandmother to my great-great-grandfather supposedly in 1821, She had found out that day that she was promised in marriage to him, They had not met yet. The letter is not in Hebrew or Yiddish but in High German using the Hebrew alphabet. (I did cheat since I also have a transcription in old German script written by my great-grandfather, probably for the benefit of my grandfather and his siblings.) FWIW, here is the original https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/r....asp?key=75219. I did not get a satisfactory answer to my question.
Sorry for going even further off topic.
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