Status Updates From Эрямодо надобия

Finally reached the end of the first short story in this collection; still in the phase where I have to look most words up in the dictionary. But this late twentieth-century literary Erzya is basically word-by-word translation of Russian idiom, more than any other language I know in the Volga region. Fela’s “Colonial Mentality” always playing in my head as I read it.