The russian

Maybe the Russians had it right in saying that vodka is the 'water of life'. Did the Irish have a similar saying?

How much Stoli have you had today, Comrade?

Greetings.

MA, the correct pronounciation of Comrade would be "Tavareesh"

Mozhit bit, tolka ya ne znayoo etut muchin.

Mo# bit droog y tovarisch, mozhit bit pyanits.

Whenever I feel like being Russian I just drink lots of vodka.

Prostitya, ya ne-ponimayu "muchin, pyanits, etut".

Tui govoresh po-russki da? eelee ukrayenski?

S drugoi staranui, ya znayu nemnoga russki yazuik

mnogi yzeeki.

man, drunk, this.

yes there are many sayings used by the irish to express their love of drink(being irish and russian as i am is very good) Here is a common folk quote-- An irishman is not drunk so long as he can hang on to one blade of grass in the world. Also Welcome to ATS.

This = etot....perhaps it's in a different case? Eh....either way, it's the symbol in cyrillic Э not e, or и as you made it sound

You have cyrillic right? mui dolzhen govoret mnoga po-russki, tui ponimayesh?

FM

Understood, yes.

No, I don't have the Cyrillic character set, I just make my Russianisms as phonetically English as I can dream them up...

Same here, I'm sure you have the Cyrillic character set, but it's a doozey to learn on English keyboards

So for now we'll just have to use russian the hard way!

I need practice in it though

My high school Russian instructor told us in 3rd year he _used_ to be required to hand over his list of students to the US government (he never said what branch). That was in the late 1980s. A college instructor in Russian implied he was still required to supply the US gov with a list of students as of 1991-2. Anyone know if that's still going on? Or if, perhaps, there has been a shift to government paranoia about speakers of other languages?

Just a matter of curiousity...

FreeMason said:


The 1st sentence I get...."you speak the Russian language, yes?" The second query I'm reading as "How's your slavic dialect from the Ukraine?" Or am I hilariously off-base there?

I always thought that the root word for 'whiskey', in gaelic, meant something akin to 'water of life'.

Perhaps you're trying to point out a similarity?

EDIT: For some reason, the computer quoted the wrong reply.

[Edited on 9-8-2003 by onlyinmydreams]

It's the whole lack of Cyrillic makes it hard lol I understand It is ili or NJIN if you turn the N's around или... "or"...Or ukranian?

bioguy

The second part of FreeMason's "interrogation" was merely "Or Ukrainian?"


* Yeah, exactly what FM just interpolated, above *


OIMD

How much Stoli have you had today, Comrade?



[Edited on 9-8-2003 by MaskedAvatar]

bioguy, skolko russki tui govoresh? <<< Eto pravilno MA?

Da, golubchick.

Ya horosho, e ya ponimayu golubchick!

Masked Avatar. Oh jebus, FreeMason beat me to the reply.

FreeMason, Ya govoroo ee ponimaioo po Russki ploxo. Ya nee-panimaioo "pravilno?"

pravilno правильно = Correct.

Eto pravilno "This is correct?"