Pronunciation of Г

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

When English works are translated in Russian, such as "Гамлет," does it still retain the English sounding H or does it change to "Gamlyet?"

Also, I've noticed around that the Russian's version of "haha" is "гыгы," which sparked this question. Would that laughed be pronounced as "huiy huiy" or "guiy guiy?"

And now that I'm on the topic of pronunciation... the "hard sign" that appears in съесть... does that c have a syllable all on it's own? I.e. "Suh-yest'"

Comments

[valikv.livejournal.com]

russian version of "haha" is "ха-ха"

[mezger.livejournal.com]

Ha Ha - Хаха is also suit.

[bohemienne.livejournal.com]

It's definitely s'yest, though the pause isn't tremendous by any means. Not sure about the g/h though.

[ex-my3bikaht259.livejournal.com]

1. Gamlyet
2. "Ha ha" equals "Ха-ха". "Гы-гы" - very rare laugh, pronounced as "guiy-guiy", and it is used almost always when played very stupid joke with somebody.

PS. Please, excuse my english, I am just a russian native :)

[mystache.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize, we're all learning here. :)

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Hey, russian natives rock! хаха

[z-machine.livejournal.com]

Гы-гы, произносится как Gy-gy! А то научишь тут сейчас всех...

[ex-my3bikaht259.livejournal.com]

если бы, а то получается "джи"-"джи"

[z-machine.livejournal.com]

Неа, тогда будет Jy-jy

[oscar-6.livejournal.com]

Russian "г" is close to the first "g" in the word "gadget" or "gag".

Your guess about hard sign is correct.

[wordsofstealth.livejournal.com]

could you say "лoл"? i mean does anyone use it???

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did, seeing as how they have "Стоп" on their stop signs which is grossly English/American.

[yers.livejournal.com]

"Stop" has been in use for ages.

[udarnitsa.livejournal.com]

When I was in first-year Russian, I asked our teacher what Russian stop signs said.

He stared at me for a second, then answered with a perfectly serious look on his face:

“Остановливайтесь.”

[yers.livejournal.com]

Oh, those stop signs.



There were still some around when I was very small... I remember struggling to read the word. =)

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Why did the Russians decide to adopt "Стоп" though? I mean, I know it's shorter than Остановливайтесь, but why not use a red line or something of the sort? Man, I'm curious about the Stop Sign history...

[yers.livejournal.com]

Hurray for my first successful photoshop fake ^_^
Sorry. Just couldn't resist.

As for СТОП, don't know... it's very old. Possibly as old as the first Russian railway.

[udarnitsa.livejournal.com]

Молодец!

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Oh you Russians and your crazy antics... I shake my fist in your general direction!

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Thats quite a mouthful for such a simple command! I join in the fist shaking ^_^

[noser.livejournal.com]

That word is just wrong, nevermind :) There's a short Russian word "Стой!". But it's more applicable to walking humans, because it is literally "Stand still!". So I guess that's why they borrowed the "Стоп" word for cars and other such stuff.

[gorgeous-yulia.livejournal.com]

wrong spelling. should be - останавливайтесь but we almost never use this form, usually it is остановись!

[z-machine.livejournal.com]

А кто такой бред написал? Пишется останАвливайтесь!

[ex-my3bikaht259.livejournal.com]

yes, sometimes

[noser.livejournal.com]

There's this new anecdote:

Сын спрашивает у отца:
- Папа правда что от интернета тупеют?
- Гы-ы-ы-ы, сынок, lol!

(A son asks his father:
- Daddy, is it true that internet makes people stupid?
- Гы-ы-ы-ы, son, lol!)

[alex-inside.livejournal.com]

гыгыгы)))

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I'm really not sure why that is. Might have some similarity to the whole "его" phenonmenon lol. I also believe that the Russian word for homosexual begins with a г.

I think I'm going to say лол from now on. Easier to type than lol I think ^_^

[wordsofstealth.livejournal.com]

I рок !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

хахахахаха! Ес ю ду ^_^

[wordsofstealth.livejournal.com]

^^

[rumball107.livejournal.com]

йцукенгшщзфывапролдячсмить

хаха -- аи эм гиглинг ат ю гаиз!

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

иц кайнд оф хард ту рийд лол.

[noser.livejournal.com]

Ha-ha = Ха-ха. Гы-гы is the stupid laugh :)

In съесть, there's ony one syllable. ъ means only two things: "с" is not palatalized, and "e" is read "йе". So you could replace "ъ" with a "й": "сйесть", and get the same prоnunciation. Traditionally, it's spelled with a "ъ".

[famous-dude.livejournal.com]

"гыгы" is not rare - it's VERY often used !!!
Just wondering the equal word in English .. "LOL"? Maybe not ...

curiouser and curiouser...

[costumier.livejournal.com]

um, pardon my ignorance, but why would Г/г ever be used to represent the english H/h sound? i thought that was Х/х's job. :-\

Re: curiouser and curiouser...

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Well as you know, English H doesn't come close to Russian's X. It's because the Russian X is dubbed harsh that they decided to replace any English H's with Russian Гs.

Re: curiouser and curiouser...

[costumier.livejournal.com]

hmm. i've never heard of this before.

random example: http://www.rutv.ru/person?person_id=1850&brand_id=692&rubric_id=14

maybe when this the X is seen in written language, context tells you if it's a foreign "h" sound or not?

[alex-inside.livejournal.com]

1. You can pronounce Hamlet as Хэмлет, but when you translate and it becomes "Russian-adopted" word, you will write it as Гамлет.
In addition. To pronounce "Г" you can compare it to "G" in "GOD" or in "ГАДАНИЕ".

2. "гыгыгыгы" I think has the same expression as "LOL", "Muahahahaha", like "THATS SO FUNNY, THAT I AM GIGGLING". That is actually used more in the internet. Offline equivalent is "hahaha". That sound is close to the sound of Beavis&Butthead's laughing :)

3. съесть, as noser said can be pronounced as "сйесть" (s'yest')