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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #50 on: October 29, 2009, 01:58:23 PM »
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What you probably spoke was Мат and she is right. It's something...but it ain't "Mother!"  :)

Well my curiosity got the better of me, so I went looking for what the word
Мат meant, I didn't find it on babel fish, my girl friend didn't know the English
equivalent. It's kinda like F*ck you or something.
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #51 on: October 29, 2009, 02:44:44 PM »
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What you probably spoke was Мат and she is right. It's something...but it ain't "Mother!"  :)

Well my curiosity got the better of me, so I went looking for what the word
Мат meant, I didn't find it on babel fish, my girl friend didn't know the English
equivalent. It's kinda like F*ck you or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mat
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #52 on: October 29, 2009, 04:25:53 PM »
.....and related also to a couple forms of insults or jests (depending on context) that was in common military and street mafia usage. The common themes were about mother or a cow. That is an insult in and of itself to link those two...insult usually intended.

Noting that most RM would not say such insults or jests around females, here are a couple of examples:


Insult 1:
You stupid SOB. Right now I'm f***ing your mother!


Jest/Joke 1
(phone rings) Allo! Yes, Sergei, how are you?  Oh, I'm fine. I was f***ing your mother when you called.



Insult 2
You good for nothing idiot. I could sentence you to 30 days of f***ing a cow!


Jest/Joke 2
Wow, you got that promotion! Go f**k a cow! Congratulations.


As certain kinds of humour can be a delicate thing across cultural and linguistic lines, I strongly recommend that no matter how "tight" you believe to be with your future brother in law or cousin, resist the urge. The magnitude of the potential misunderstanding is far too risky to fathom.


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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #53 on: October 29, 2009, 04:46:02 PM »
Here's a few that always made me smile.

"I'm on my ear."
"I'm eager for your advices"

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #54 on: October 29, 2009, 05:01:30 PM »
Here's a few that always made me smile.
"I'm on my ear."

What did it mean?

"I'm eager for your advices"


Yeah, I have heard that one
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #55 on: October 29, 2009, 05:07:01 PM »
It meant I'm listening to you, and paying careful attention to what you are saying.

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #56 on: October 29, 2009, 05:56:03 PM »
 I think Manny was pulling a late one when I made this topic, and I had a few problems getting it sorted out correctly.  So of course Manny assumed I had been drinking. Hence the " gulg gulg... hic " post that he made.
And maybe it was my cute little story that started it all off. :biggrin:

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #57 on: October 31, 2009, 11:55:47 PM »

The infamous "Lena" who got me hooked on RW used to ask me all the time, "do you have it ?" meaning to say do you understand me, which of course i went the typical dumb guy route and replied do i have what; i don't have anything. That would get her going, but i geuss i'm just a tease.  :)

Then, i really got her for a week. She had been breaking my tongue trying to improve my Russian pronounciation and I finally got her back. For about 2 weeks, I had her convinced that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was an actual word used in the states and she needed to learn it. I then let one of our mutual friends in on it who knew the truth; it was great. She had it coming.  ;D

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #58 on: November 01, 2009, 03:19:19 PM »
"plumps" - purple fruit that grow on fruit trees.

"pentees" - sexy when talking about her own underwear  :loving:, disconcerting when talking about mine  :o.

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #59 on: November 01, 2009, 04:36:47 PM »
Yes this seems to be a serious problem with any FSU woman.

First every word in the entire Russian language has a gender, bananas are
male, dogs are female and it goes on and on and on and on on and on and on and on

BUT.. in English we have what maybe 6 words that are gender specific and an
FSUW will refuse to say "that man is handsome wearing his underwear." She
will say "that man is pretty wearing his panties"

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #60 on: November 02, 2009, 02:35:55 PM »
From the movie 12 Chairs

"Don't teach me to live, better help financially"

It's a fairly common phrase meaning "help me don't try to improve me"
women have been thinking like this for centuries
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Kiss the girl, don't ask her first.
Get an apartment not a hotel. DON'T recycle girls

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #61 on: November 02, 2009, 07:00:47 PM »
I nearly peed in my pants when she asked how I liked the picture of her in her "swimming dress".
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #62 on: November 02, 2009, 07:21:11 PM »
Can you scissors your fingers please (Cut your finger nails) :ROFL:
Can you shower your hair face ( can you shave your face) :ROFL:

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #63 on: November 17, 2009, 05:52:04 PM »
We had to call and see my lawyer today. He is a pal of ours and not a stuffy lawyer at all (he wears jeans for work for example).

I have not seen him for a while. We shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, etc.....

He admired our daughter and her four and a half teeth that she proudly shows everyone, and then turned to my wife and said, "Hello Olga, you are looking particularly babe-tastic today" (he's like that).  :-\

Wifey is seldom stumped on a word, but I saw the cogs turning and watched while she looked blank for a moment processing "babe" and "tastic" through her mental translator........ she then replied.....

"It is good? I think so"

Maybe you had to be there. It tickled me anyway........

We laughed about it later. I thought I would share it.
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #64 on: November 17, 2009, 11:43:36 PM »
'When are you going to cut your feet fingers'

'Get up, it's eight oh ten'

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #65 on: June 27, 2010, 11:56:35 PM »
 I had a conversation last week with my little human heater over some possible future beauacracy in leaving her country.
 She said, '' Uzbekistan is a good country, if you have problems you can pay and you have no more problems. And it's not expensive.''

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #66 on: June 28, 2010, 12:21:31 AM »
I had a conversation last week with my little human heater over some possible future beauacracy in leaving her country.
 She said, '' Uzbekistan is a good country, if you have problems you can pay and you have no more problems. And it's not expensive.''


'When are you going to cut your feet fingers'

'Get up, it's eight oh ten'

Any "cute things" that western guys say when trying to speak Russian?  :laugh:
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #67 on: July 28, 2010, 10:53:52 AM »
"Can you borrow me five dollars?"

I said no but I can "lend" you five dollars or give you five dollars.

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #68 on: July 28, 2010, 11:35:20 AM »
Yes, 'learn' is often used when they mean 'teach' also. The scary thing is that, after a while, we not only understand it, but we begin to speak that way.

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #69 on: July 28, 2010, 11:39:57 AM »
We will do this another?


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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #70 on: July 28, 2010, 12:15:50 PM »
If I switch on the light insects will be attracted
(as an excuse not to turn on a webcam)

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #71 on: July 28, 2010, 10:21:48 PM »

You stink wonderfully!!

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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #72 on: August 24, 2010, 07:53:03 PM »
During a disscussion about the climate in Gomel (BLR), I told my sweety "that in America we would say that the weather here really sucks".  She of course replied "I do not know this word sucks, learn me about this word" ???.  Trying to keep things on a polite level proved difficult;  references to drinking through straws were failing to tie into something being unfavorable.   She was a bit relentless in her questioning so I eventually had to elaborate on likely roots of the word as a  slang staple.  Other cute things were calling me "hooligan" on several occassions, usually for "rushing bases", it was interesting how someone with a  limited English vocabulary would know this somewhat obscure word  so well.  And lastly, I would quietly crack up inside a little everytime she would call me darling (daahhlinkk) with her lovely thick Russian accent, it was so like how Boris Badanoff's girlfriend Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series would say it.     
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #73 on: August 25, 2010, 02:05:08 AM »
The lady I met from Lvov used to pronounce "nothing" as "nut-ting" it was cute as hell and I never corrected her for that very reason!
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Re: Cute Things Former Soviet Girls Say
« Reply #74 on: September 18, 2010, 08:57:11 PM »
I could probably add some of my own lines, which were said by me occasionally, and which I happen to remember.

Standing near a shoe rack and looking at the only pair of shoes left in a bigger size:

'It is good to be a ten. But not in a shoe size' :)

Heading home in the dark after a long shopping for underwear, and suddenly notice a bus approaching the opposite side of Eglinton avenue. Its lightning number catches my eye immediately, because the bus number is 34C, and I cannot help but noticing, 'Oh, that's my size!' :) ;)
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