This exercise is like as school test in russian school. You need to create a description (short essay) of this picture. #1

 

This photo was taken in a summer forest on a small lawn. Above the trees, there is sunshine, but below the tree crowns, there is a light shade. On the green carpet of herbs and grass, a little girl, who is almost a child, is sitting, and a big white dog is lying beside her. The girl and dog are familiar with each other and seem to be enjoying each other's company. The girl wears a white shirt and green shorts, and her feet are in brown shoes. Her curly brown hair is medium-length. She is concentrating on a small flower that she's keeping in hands, while the big dog watches her face and eyes. The dog's face is a little long nose and quiet, with a brown nose and brown eyes. In mine they both are quietly happy.

The facial expressions of Russians by Craig Ashton

 The facial expressions of Russians differ from those of the British in their minimalism. Malaminism (from words in russian Мало and latin minim).

For a long time, on the cold sea of emotionlessness, I got used to your faces. People, people everywhere, not a smile for me. 20 years later, I'm showing emotions like you. The neurons of the eyebrows live without strain. There is peace in the cheeks and lips. But there were problems with relatives. You can look at facial expressions as an additional way to language. Facial semaphores (or Flags of the international code of signals), transmitting simple but important information. With them, the captains of ships on the Transatlantic Ocean can safely sail around and around each other without collisions. Unfortunately, there is no international standard for these semaphores yet. And what's worse, everyone thinks they're all the same. This is one of the reasons why conversations between ours and yours can hit the celestial axis. I had a lot of mistakes in communicating with Russians… The captain of my ship in 2003, and so slightly neurotic in interpersonal affairs, saw a Russian frigate for the first time in close waters. “Boatswain of the Media! Raise the flag of friendship, good intentions and desire to communicate!” “That's right, Captain!” the media replied, happy that the anchor of sea solitude was being lifted from the waters of the soul for a while. He passed the command to the flywheel, who began to wave cheerfully. “Well, Boatswain, what's the answer? The brave captain asked with a dashing smile. Smee, still looking through the telescope, answered slowly… “They responded with only one flag, Captain. “Well, what is it??” “Lima. "Stop immediately"" “You must have made a mistake, the media, your eyes were blurred by the glare of the waves. Wave to them again that we are friendly and safe.” “I couldn't believe my eyes either. We've already done it again, Captain. Twice. “Then let's have more friendly flags! Wave more amicably! – The captain shouted, already slightly afraid of drowning. “Well? What's there?” The media, with a hand on the back of his head, replied, “There is a message in their flags: ‘Octopuses are drifting on our deck.’and something about the sea cucumber...” “In... what do you mean?” “I don't know, Captain! Absolutely no idea! This is the first time I've seen such a message.” And imagine this scene as it was in real life. I'm waving with all my might, the muscles of my eyebrows and lips, my face is all in flags, my hands are all in swings, my liver is all in adrenaline. “Tell them that we can help with the octopuses “Captain, they're responding! They are actively waving! The captain calmed down a little. Activity is good. “What do they say?”What is it?" he asked. There are... several flags of “uniform."Captain... "You are going to danger"" The Russian frigate began to move at full speed in their direction, with only one flag hung on it. A flag with an unambiguous value. The captain took the telescope from the boatswain. After five seconds, he dropped his hands and dropped it. “The boatswain of the Media. It was an honor to serve with you. Tell the command to ‘abandon ship'. Help us, Lord...” I'm not even exaggerating much. I have misunderstood Russian facial expressions for a long time. I was often told that my “facial expressions are so plastic!”but, confident in the objective correctness of my own charter, it did not occur to me that I needed to adapt. I did not suspect that Russian people, at the first meeting, are silent by default. They don't smile like fools for no reason. Especially since they don't know your father's name yet. And what did it all look like from the point of view of a Russian person? I guess my face looked like a video created by a 2017-year-old AI who was asked to animate paintings by Picasso and Dali. Eyebrows drift across the forehead, eyes bulge out of the mouth. Madness. Talk your face off! Over the years, I began to notice that Russians transmit a lot of signals from other systems. Intonation, subtle eye movements. Now my signalman can read these messages (well, mostly, sometimes it turns out to be a broken semaphore) and I'm absolutely comfortable with the Russians. But in 2003-2015 there were continuous misunderstandings due to the difference in facial expressions. And if you add incorrect translations there, then it turns out to be completely nonsense. For example, the question “How are you / you alright? we use it as a greeting. Russians take it not as a greeting, but as a real question. In response, together with “I'm fine, thanks”, Russians can raise not a flag of greeting, but a whole chronicle of bygone years with the addition of an existential sense of existence. In the summer I was in England, the owner of the corner store greeted me with “Y-alright?”and I sincerely replied that not really, there were problems, in principle I will eliminate, but ...” and suddenly noticed that his soul, like a turtle, left his eyes and disappeared deep into his shell. My main awareness in this case is that before, my face often did not express my true feelings. My smile could have been a polite lie. Although it was not an attempt to cheat (as a seller of old cars), I still think it is wrong. Neither authentic nor sincere. This makes it possible to smooth things out and communicate with a person I don't like, but why should I communicate with him? The less I liked him, the more he smiled and made faces. I'm not a jerk anymore. Well, not really)) My metamorphosis is not without sadness, but also not without joy. The underwater stone faces remained, but I'm already with the pilot. I'm sailing on with your flags high up next to ours.

AI translated by Yandex

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