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I guess being early to work is why he has no friends ;)
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I think boss should be accepted as an English translation of директор. Who says director in English. Stop the clutter of comments coming by accepting boss!
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We say director quite a bit. My manager said it a few times in a conversation to me earlier today.
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I'll suggest that it should be accepted too, but I think boss is a fair translation as well.
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Maybe. But in Russion business speech "босс" is used hardly ever. "Босс" is often used in the jargone.
(My native language is russian, so I'm sorry if I make mistakes in English :) )
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Good point, but I feel very few people would say my director or CEO. In normal life I would say boss 90% of the time
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A boss (in English) is a much wider category than a director or a CEO. Does the Russian word carry as wide a meaning?
how do you write the symbol on the end (ь) in duolingo? I think I have seen it expressed as an apostrophe ( ' ) before, but that was wrong when I typed it.
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Yes, ( ' ) is right. But you should really be using Cyrillic. Not using it is a waste of time.
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Pips_23 is right - learn to write in Cyrillic. I created a long comment discussing how to load and use the Russian Mnemonic Keyboard in Windows 10 at: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/27236556
There are many similar keystrokes between Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, so you don't have to start from an absolute beginning. For example, to type the Cyrillic "d" = д, your press the "d" key. Cyrillic "r" = р, you press the "r" key.
Of the 33 characters in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, 19 of them correspond directly to English letters on the keyboard. That leaves just 14 new keystrokes you have to use.
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Director is not boss,boss is началник.директор means the movie director
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What do you base those definitions on?
A context search of both words shows that началник means "boss" or "chief", but that директор means about the same thing as it does in English: the head of some group who is charged with operation of the group's affairs or business. That would include a movie director, I suppose, although in English that's a specialized meaning for the word "director". директор also seems to mean "principal", which in English is the person in local charge of a school. ("Principal" has other meanings, but they are not well-translated by "director".)
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Why does DL tell me I'm wrong when I've typed in the correct answer?! (on many occasions!) .....so annoying......
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Often because you've typed in the wrong answer and failed to notice what your mistake was.
Next time, copy and paste your answer in the comments, so people can discuss whether Duo has wrongly graded your answer.
