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luminous · madre de succulante

you heard me.
I don't have a PhD, but I'm a native speaker (can't beat that!).
...

I know some of you are taking Russian as a class! (confused yet? if you aren't, you're not doing it right.) So, homework or just curious...Go ahead, ask me anything about it. I'll try to give you a response within a reasonable amount of time, really!

I promise I don't bite. (Unless you ask nicely, and in russian.

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[This message has been edited by luminous (edited 03-23-2004 06:55 PM).]

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Укусите меня, пожалуйста

My Russian doesn't stretch further than Dosvidanja, Nastrovje and dobre werze, hich all are probably spelled wrong.

Antrax · ESL Student

I'll ask you, too:
How come Russian and Hebrew have a common letter? (looks and sounds the same).
(It's that letter that makes a "sh" sound, and looks like an E rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise)
Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

Kd · Mei Li De Hua

Please do translate the nice words from the nice image hovering over your nice Xanga blog. I need the cookies.

luminous · madre de succulante

bites jesternl

ant, you're right, that is what that letter does. I wasn't aware it was the same in Hebrew. WHAT IS THIS, BIZARRE-O WORLD?!
ahem.

Kd, you mean the russian? Sure (from top to bottom):
"misery (well...technically, suffering.) loves a symphony"
"parnassus on a jet plane!"
"won't you sing me the blues?"

and the phrase you see running along the left side is in Ukranian:
"ideal nations."
thurrrrrryougo.

Antrax · ESL Student

What does "Pizdietz" (or "Pizdetz", depends on who's pronouncing it) really mean?
Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

Vinny · Promiscuous enough

can you teach me how to cuss in Russian?

Give me some choice succulent cuss!

Antrax · ESL Student

Use what I wrote. I don't know what it means, but once I said it next to a Russian guy and he gave me a death stare

Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

Vinny · Promiscuous enough

it sounds like "piss off and die" ...

luminous · madre de succulante

vinny and ant-
i think you'll find these sites helpful in your search to become better russians.^^
http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Russian.html
http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/russian.htm

Vinny · Promiscuous enough

So what Ant said was "to chat, or to shoot the bull", what's wrong with that? Don't know why you would get a "death glare" for it Russians are weird.

luminous · madre de succulante

it's hard to explain.
russians get pretty offended if you use the wrong sort of the language around them.
ie.
if you use the tense that indicates friends over the one that indicates respect when you should be using the respect one.
expecially if it's slang.
yep.