@p @DiamondMind @Economic_Hitman @GhostOfMoshe @Godsend @JVKO @Kensurgence @MagicMoshe @Mombi @NonPlayableClown @SilverDeth @VaxxSabbath @bonifartius @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @dcc @fish @freemayonnaise @ins0mniak @ins0mniak @jae @mrsaturday @nimt @pista @samwise @sicp @takao @thebitchisback @tsubo @w0rm @yaboisugoi @yomiel Several posts up the thread you’ve shown some AI skills, so I presumed that you’ve got on a friendly footing with things like ad hoc translation too.



























Well, I guessed wrong, so there’s the translation, if someone interested:

> Let us recall the glorious date of our athletics – the adventures of Viacheslav Vedenin in Japanese Sapporo. The Soviet athelete has been calmly waiting for his turn, but several minutes before his start, a thick and sticky snow began to fall. Having to adjust with the changed circumstances, Vedenin treated the skis with a grease, which, according to his understanding, was more fitting for the tough weather. A Japanese reporter noticed that. (At that time there were no mixt-zones at ski competitions, and journalists were placed near the athletes even before the start.) The Japanese had some skills in the Russian language, and decided to jokingly ask the skier “Do you really believe, that this will do? [It’s] such a heavy snow [after all]”
> Vededin, still focused on preparing the skis and slightly irritated, dropped “And two ###s with it”. The Japanese journalist knew the language not that well to understand the meaning of the phrase, but he remembered the words. Vedenin ran off into the snowfall, and at the beginning it seemed, that he has troubles – by the 10 km mark, only the seventh time. But to the 20 km mark everything had changed: the Soviet skier took the lead with an advantage of 11 seconds. And then he would only increase the tempo and finished first, having outrun the nearest competitor by almost a minute. The next day one of the well-known Japanese newspapers published a headline: “Soviet skier said the magic word ‘Entufawizu’ and won the Olympics”. For many years this story travelled from people to people as a tale, but in 2013 Vedenin has confirmed: it was just this way – “This was before the thirtieth. That blizzard. He came up and asked: it’s snowing, how are you going to run, even? And I grumbled ‘And two ###s with it’”.

> Why, the word really is magical
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