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[nerdesque.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm an absolute beginner :/



What does афтар mean? Neither one of my dictionaries know the answer and online translators just tell me it means "aftar" which really doesn't mean anything, either.

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[avysk]

Intentional misspelling of "автор". Neither "увей" nor "увий" or "увй" are russian words. The word on the picture is "убей".

[nerdesque.livejournal.com]

Aksdlsj, I mix up the B and б all the time. You know. I just spent eighteen years getting used to the fact that B and b is pronounced B, not V. This will take time :)

[realloc.livejournal.com]

It means "Author kill yourself"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_maemi_/]

"афтар" is a distored form of word "автор" (author). nowadays it's quite popular among russian internet users to alter words in such way.

>The drawing says увей, the dictionary spells it увий and увй. How come?

All variants are incorrect. The correct one is "убей".

[nerdesque.livejournal.com]

I screwed up :/ I keep thinking B is a b and not a v. This'll take time.

[berzerg.livejournal.com]

а что значит "distored"

[oatmealia.livejournal.com]

nowadays it's quite popular among russian internet users to alter words in such way

Why is this? Can it be equated with any English-language netspeak distortion that I would be familiar with?

[spokojnik.livejournal.com]

oh you're onto something that has been and, sadly enough, still is a new pop-hysteria in ru.internet. the idea of a new sort of language for the rebellious uptight net surfers goes that one has to write all the freakin words as incorrectly as you can, yet it has to sound equally to the original words you're trying to write.
афтар is a "parody" on автор which means, every dictionary will say, "author".
"Aftar ubej sebja" means literally that the author of a particular post or a piece of art-work ("креатифф") should kill him/herself coz what he's posted is just THAT bad...

[suejc3dogs.livejournal.com]

Aw, it's a fairly harmless way of entertaining ourselves, isn't it? Beats shooting heroin. Have you met Медвед?

[ex-chertcoff759.livejournal.com]

can be translated in some kind of "auffa kil yaselv". Also you can use "убейсибяапстенку" - "kil yaselv by runin on da wal" or "выпей йаду" - "drunk da poizon". The method is rather simple - just juse phonetical mirror of the words, write them like you hear them. Also some kind of philosophy is included in all these styles of perverted writing:)

[ex-chertcoff759.livejournal.com]

just juse - use of course

[gera.livejournal.com]

It's a deliberate misspelling, akin to kewl vs cool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewl).

[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

Афтар is deliberate misspelling of автор (author). Such misspellings (and the whole sentence on picture) are marks of a net subculture known as падонки.

[solnyxo.livejournal.com]

ахахахахах ща умру от смеха!!! великий могучий русский язык =D ахахахахахаха блиааааа

[nerdesque.livejournal.com]

Emphasis on the absolute beginner part.

[oryx_and_crake]

I would like to remind that the working language of this community is English. Also, please try to avoid comments that are not really contributing to the discussion. Thank you.

[salexey.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_internet_slang

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Жаргон_падонков

[wiwi.livejournal.com]

and picture is from the film "Sin City"
Bruse Willis kills himself :)

[suejc3dogs.livejournal.com]

И мой Клайвчег Оуен is the most кросавчег of them all! A great movie.

OOps, but we have been reminded that the working language of this community is English. Also, please try to avoid comments that are not really contributing to the discussion. Thank you.

Я огорчен!

It means Author, kill yourself. Дахуя букафф means the comment is too bloody long. I suppose, then, that I had better cut this one off, before somebody shoots me.

Большой спасибо for your rapt attention to this critical matter. I was just leaving.

Good bye.

[southwest]

жжош, кросавчег!

[oryx_and_crake]

I would like to remind that the working language of this community is English. Also, please try to avoid comments that are not really contributing to the discussion. Thank you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lee_loo_/]

Probably, it does make sense to release some kind of "Удафский язык" dictionary in the nearest future.

[july-jones.livejournal.com]

Not that I speak Russian (I can read the alphabet, that's all), but I knew a guy named Aftar (Avtar?) so I thought maybe it is the man's name but apparently not.

[berzerg.livejournal.com]

u r wrong. (

[myxa-zhzh.livejournal.com]

Нате вам ещё загадку: СКИРИБИРИЕЖКА =)

[oryx_and_crake]

I would like to remind that the working language of this community is English. Also, please try to avoid comments that are not really contributing to the discussion. Thank you.

[cranberry-babe.livejournal.com]

Rofl :))))
you guys rock :))))

[i-am-spectrum.livejournal.com]

See Жаргон падонков (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Жаргон падонков) article in ruwiki - it contains full dictionary of such a misspellings (like "автор" => "афтар", "яд" => "йад").

[bum-bum-bum.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaa!!! Аффтары, преведы и кросавчеги are everywhere! At first it was fun, but now it is a shame only.
I hope that the language of "падонки" will die soon. Russian language is beautiful!

[svs.livejournal.com]

You're taking internet too seriously :-) And no, it won't die, it will just become and old meme.