Random? Slang term (not dictionary translation!

[msmiss.livejournal.com]

How would you say "random" (or something similar) in Russian? For example: "That is the most random thing I've ever heard."
Thanks and sorry for the dumb question.

EDIT: What I mean by "random" is: something someone does or says which is completely unrelated to anything at that moment and is often looked at as humorous. It is slang for when someone just says or does  something totally "off-the-subject".  Out-of-the-blue is probably the closest phrase to this word (that I can think of at the moment).

Comments

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

Programmers and people that communicate with them use 'рандОм' 8)

[oryx_and_crake]

I am a programmer and I have never heard of that.

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

I am programmer to 8) And we use рандом only because of random function 8)
Like "это получилось рандомно" or "это был рандом" about some success 8)

[oryx_and_crake]

I assure you that people were using random number generators even before the dawn of computer era. And all the time they had a proper Russian name - генераторы случайных чисел. There is no need to use a calque for that, unless you don't really know your own language (then, of course, you have to use calques, creating смесь французского с нижегородским).

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

You think "генератор случайных числел" mutch easyer to use than "рандом"? 8)

[oryx_and_crake]

What's wrong with "это получилось случайно" as opposed to "это получилось рандомно"?

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

It is just like to say "гудово" or "ес" or "мей би" or even "мну" instead of "меня" 8) Sometimes it's annoying 8)

[oryx_and_crake]

I don't think you should offer any of these expressions to language learners. It is not just annoying - it is confusing and it is wrong. They can learn slang later, after they master normative Russian well enough to tell right from wrong.

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

Well you right about this 8)

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

maybe you too old school )

[oryx_and_crake]

oh yes, I am senile and practically dead anyway, please don't mind me :-)

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

oryx_and_crake is 100% right. I don´t want to offend anybody, but very few learners can afford using slang, just because nobody will understand it.

If a foreigner says гудово, йес, мей би etc, nobody will get it as a joke or Russian slang. The impression will be that they´re mixing the languages coz they don´t know the Russian word.

I have never heard a Russian say рэндом/рандом, although I believe programmers use it. Well, they use a lot of ¨terms¨ that are unintelligible for ¨civilians¨:=)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never use slang or Новояз or bad words, it sounds really bad whith my accent and my far from flawless grammar. It is really hard to be ironic aswell, I've tried so many times... and people tell me "We don't talk like that in Russian" and I have to explain: "we dont talk like that in Swedish either, but I talk like that!" It's the same thing when swedish learning Russian friends try to be ironic in swedish, it doesn't work... I can tell my Russian friends when they ask me if something i s correct in sweish "Well if I said so, no one would say it was wrong, but if you formulated a sentence like that, you would most probably be corrected!"

[pzrk.livejournal.com]

1. When a word is adopted from other language, the stress is never shifted - so, it is "rAndom".
2. "random number generator" == "uенератор случайных чисел".

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

1. Ofcourse it is. But this word mutch slang then adoptation. In adoptation it must be sounds like "рЭндом" i think
2. I know 8))

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

What is that word "mutch" that you use now-and-then? Is that your special fusion of "match" and "much" that you use whenever you need any of those words and don't know how to say properly (as in case with "гудово") ?

[kefir-msk.livejournal.com]

This is "learn_RUSSIAN" community, not "learn_ENGLISH" 8)

[ex-roumor.livejournal.com]

maybe its rAndom but who cares. ppl mostly use randOm

[oryx_and_crake]

I daresay "ppl" mostly use "случайный" unless they are illiterate teenagers.