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Author Topic: Get ready to welcome a new Russian speaker in a few years (maybe)  (Read 3531 times)

Sean Mirrsen

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Re: Get ready to welcome a new Russian speaker in a few years (maybe)
« Reply #30 on: April 23, 2010, 05:20:35 am »

Which would already enable you to communicate with russians on the most basic level. See the Wiki page on Russian Mat. Also, this quote from elsewhere on that wiki:
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As an ultimate joke in this series, the goal is to apply such substitution to as many words of a sentence as possible while keeping it meaningful. The following dialog at a construction site between a foreman and a worker retains a clear meaning even with all of its 14 words being derived from the single obscene word khuy. Russian language proficiency is needed to understand this. Word-by-word:

    - Ohuyeli?! (Have [you] gone mad?!) Nahuya (why) dohuya  (so much) huyni (of stuff) nahuyarili (you have loaded up)? Rashuyarivay (unload [it]) nahuy! (out of here)
    - Huli?! (What's the problem?) Nihuya! (No way!) Nehuy (No need) rashuyarivat (to unload)! Nahuyacheno ([It] got loaded) nehuyovo! (quite well)! Pohuyarili! (Let's go)
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Re: Get ready to welcome a new Russian speaker in a few years (maybe)
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2010, 06:08:59 am »

I just wanted to add that the above exchange makes perfect sense in Polish as well.
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Re: Get ready to welcome a new Russian speaker in a few years (maybe)
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2010, 09:52:50 am »

It's a good thing that Toady doesn't speak Russian. ;)
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