Upside down? It looked fine to me. Do you want the fingers to point downward?

Never met a Russian. That is surprising. Anyhow, I don't understand why here any honor is involved. I thought they are all over the World.

I actually was born in the Soviet Union and lived there for 23 years and then immigrated to the US.

I did meet people from South Africa. Of all other accents, their accent sounds the most pleasant on my ear.

I love the sound of the French language. They might talk about the most trivial things and it sounds like they discuss a painting of Monet. ))) But in English their accent sounds awful.

The Russian accent also doesn't sound very pleasant.

Here's for instance how mine sounds

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