At the Oakland Artwalk last Friday, I somehow ended up making a bet with a Russian accordion player named Stanislav (pictured to the left without his beard), officiated by one Miss Lefkowitz, that I couldn't learn 100 Russian vocabulary words in a month. This hardly seemed fair to me, the recipient, as I have little to lose, but would have to do all the work, & vocab is one of my weakest areas. A few days later I received the first ten, which I post here. I'm going to work on 100 groovy English vocabulary words as an exchange, which will be up here shortly.
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stressed, or accented if you like.)
bleen - means both 'pancake' and 'darn!' (ee like in bleating of a cow)
poo-za - belly (za like in Zadig) 1st stressed
ba-leet - aches (ba like in barn) 2nd
sa-ma-gon - homebrew (gon like in Michel Gondry) 3rd
yad - poison
groo-she - pears 1st stressed
groo-dee - breasts 1st stressed
groo-zee - load them up 2nd
oom-ree - die 2nd
kra-sa-vetz - handsome 2nd stressed
oom-ree - die 2nd
If you say all the words fast, they run sorta like a poem.
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One possible shortcut would be to make a list of fifty cognates.
Some of the first 10 are sorta similar. But 50 cognates - I dunno - recited out loud may be kinda tedious. And this shit is gonna get performed, in front of a live crowd.
Sorry, the picture didn't upload the first time I posted this.
I see you have die twice. There's a Russian film called "Zam-ree, oom-ree, voskres-nee," which means "Freeze, die, Resurrect." All those and the verbs you have already are imperatives, if you weren't sure.
how is it possible that three simliar sounding groo-schmee words mean pears, breasts, load 'em up.
i don't believe this language.
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