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Are there shibboleths specific to native Russian speakers?

Aside from the items pointed above, a well-educated native russian speaker often writes (and speaks) in incredibly long, almost Hemingway-ish, compound sentences, where you can barely remember what the … I'm not sure if it's primarily the influence of russian prose, or something about the language itself which causes the brain to produce the long sentences. …
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