Actually, you might be right. I never expected the difference to be so stark. Although technically, Russian to me is a third language, and I use its Little Russian dialect instead in public speech.
If I'd wager to say, the difference may be caused by two factors:
1) English to me seems like a vowel-centric language, and I always focused on the clarity of the vowels (compare "vowel" to the German "Zelpstlaut";
2) the only Russian I hear these days is from 60 year old Marxist/monarchist boomers on Jew Soloviev's talk show, whereas I would scapegoat the animus of America as wholly gay.
Still queer, but slightly manlier. (I'm a fake self-improvement fakecel, fuck me.)
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