Urban Dictionary for Russians

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

Is there something like an UrbanDictionary.ru, and would there be interest in one?
It would be very helpful for understanding forums and chat rooms.

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

I don't know of one but the idea is definitely interesting.
You will find some information and links here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preved

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

I'm not talking just about Жаргон падонков, but slang, phrases, and provebs. One frequently encounters phrases like "киса куку" for which lingvo.ru is not helpful.

[oryx_and_crake]

Well, I don't know about such resource but someone else may...

[oryx_and_crake]

P.S. looks like Russian wikipedia may be of some help here
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Ramir/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83

and yandex.ru is your best friend, as always

[takaroyama.livejournal.com]

Actually, "киса куку" is also from padonki's slang. Look the dictionary here:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Жаргон_падонков (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Жаргон_падонков)

[portugalist.livejournal.com]

киса куку isn't it a frase from a movie?

[takaroyama.livejournal.com]

Which movie is it from? I never heard it in movies.

[oryx_and_crake]

No it is not from a movie. It was born in an online chat. That's a wide-known story.

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

I think that the point the OP was making was that, e.g., in English one can look up the word “pillow” and “biter”, and still be confused by “pillow-biter”.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

or wife-beater ;)

[madscience.livejournal.com]

I'd love that! I started learning Russian for the specific purpose of reading Russian comments on photo posts here on LiveJournal. I learned the alphabet and a little about the grammar and bought the second-biggest Russian-English dictionary I could find (couldn't afford the biggest)... and was disappointed to find it lacking most of the words and phrases people are using on teh intertubes.

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in making one but it's not going to be easy. There's a massive challenge (you can just ask Google) any time you want search capabilities in Russian, since you want to be able to find druz'ya when you search for drug and zhzhosh when you search for zhzhot. Hopefully some of that can be eliminated by creating aliases for entries (like Wikipedia has redirects to a main article from different titles for someone). I'm not sure if I could count on a userbase to supply enough variants to not have to use any search intelligence.

[oryx_and_crake]

Why don't you use yandex.ru for search? It can handle the word forms perfectly (probably not such as жжот/жжош, but друг/друзья, as these are regular word forms, for sure).

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

Ты -- молодец!

[vargtimmen.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can't figure out how to include Yandex search in my site. Do you know any sites that have a Yandex search box?

[oryx_and_crake]

I am not sure but I know people do that somehow.
this: http://blogs.yandex.ru/ will do a blog search, and on this page http://www.yandex.ru/all_services.html there is a list of all yandex services... maybe you'll find something there.