alt Hacker News> You can, and should, speak Russian with a permanent broad smile
Funnily enough, I was told the exact same thing about English when I was learning it as a Russian native.
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Cockbrand • today at 7:56 AM
In contrast, see “Why Russians never smile”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317859
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lostlogin • today at 7:51 AM
Are we trying to make psychopaths? That’s sounds very unsettling for conversation.
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I learned it on my own... always imagined it as "speaking without letting the heat out"