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in article <1993Jan12.170824.14304@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, reest@dutentu.et.tudelft.nl (Peter van der Reest) says:
#  
#  In the course I followed I learnt the same thing as you:
#  Ya ni znayu etova slova and Ya ni znayu etova goroda would 
#  be the correct expressions to use.
#  

Hm, interesting.

Probably, normaly I would prfer: "Ja ne znaju etogo goroda/slova" instead of 
"Ja ne znaju etot gorod/eto slovo", too. Though, if somebody says: 
"Ja ne znaju etot gorod/eto slovo", I wouldn't consider it as a mistake.
At the same time, you should always say "Ja ne znaju etogo 
cheloveka/muzhchinu".  "Ja ne znaju etot chelovek/muzhchina" sounds
absolutely incorrectly.  Don't ask me why it is this way, I don't know.
It has nothing to do with "alive/dead" things.  For example, both
"Ja ne znaju etu zhenshchinu" and "Ja ne znaju etoj zhenshchiny" 
sounds correctly.

#  
#  Peter van der Reest,
#  Student at 
#  Delft University of Technology,
#  Department of Electrotechnical Engineering.
#  Electonics Laboratory.
#  
#     ... and even if you choose not to decide,
#  	              you still have made a choice.
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