Just a warning

[eekee 182]

"minyet" is actually more innocent (if this word can be applied to this kind of vocabulary ), but it's definitely not an everyday use word

I don't have a problem with mat per se--sometimes I have to have things translated INTO mat, like when I came across "razdolbai" last week while reading something for my thesis and my friend had to explain to me that it means the same thing as "razpizdai." But to me, like c**t in English, there is something just totally unsexy and icky about the word "minet."

[ONA 133]

I don't have a problem with mat per se--sometimes I have to have things translated INTO mat, like when I came across "razdolbai" last week while reading something for my thesis and my friend had to explain to me that it means the same thing as "razpizdai." But to me, like c**t in English, there is something just totally unsexy and icky about the word "minet."

That reminded me of a joke... too bad that it's hard to understand for non-native Russian speakers, but I'll post a link on it anyway: http://www.ljpoisk.ru/archive/972312.html

I hardly ever use any "mat", but this joke cracks me up.

[eekee 182]

Hhaha, yes, I have heard that one before.

It always amuses me when my friends who are getting their PhDs in Slavic Languages and Literature at Ivy League universities have to send me messages to translate mat for them. After years of being the "slacker," finally there are aspects of the Russian language that I know better than they do!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I'm going to try this word out on her...hopefully I don't get my #### kicked over this one.

Alla will use it only in private. I sometimes (she tells me) do not pronouce my words too well and when I say "minya..." Meaning "my", depending on the following word can sound like I am saying "minyet" One of her more outspoken friends told me over dinner one night "Do you keep saying ####### because you need one so bad?"

[slim 1,523]

The only dirty word i know is sooka; and that's because Denis calls everyone a sooka. Or at least used to, now he say ###### idiot a lot because I can't stop myself from saying it when I'm driving.

"Oh Fuuuuuuuudge."

It always amuses me when my friends who are getting their PhDs in Slavic Languages and Literature at Ivy League universities have to send me messages to translate mat for them. After years of being the "slacker," finally there are aspects of the Russian language that I know better than they do!

One of my old co-workers went through the Defense Language Institute back in the late '70s. He said they were taught mat very early on because in order to effectively understand the radio transmissions of the foreign pilots, they had to have a good grasp on the more colorful parts of Russian. "When they weren't cursing, we knew there was a general on board."