Modern Russian Usage Dictionary

[bokh.livejournal.com]

Словоборг, looks like urbandictionary in Russian and might be fun to browse (and to fill, too ;)). The site obviously needs to grow more but I think it is quite entertaining already.

Comments

[cxielamiko.livejournal.com]

It is a bit strange, that me, moscow leaver, every time when i read a vocabular of "new russian" i find, that i have never heared, that somewho used this words. So..

[bokh.livejournal.com]

Well, there _are_ regional differences in Russian (it would actually be strange if there weren't, given the size of the country :p)

[cxielamiko.livejournal.com]

No, i don't think so. I think that these vocabulares may contain *lexic, which is the most popular in very low-level societies, where there are a lot of very bad people (*mushrooms -) *). Normal people and also not very normal don't use these words anywhere.

[bokh.livejournal.com]

(http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=littlediffsd4.jpg) Example?

[cxielamiko.livejournal.com]

no, i mind rubbish of society, who spends life drinking, smoking, eating LSD and getting money steeling it.

[bokh.livejournal.com]

I understood whom you meant (although the reference to mushrooms was a bit unclear - did you mean Lenin?) and that is why I asked you for an example, because I neither drink nor smoke nor do any drugs and don't steal anything (including software), but I do use quite a few words listed on that site. As they say in Russian message boards, "what am I doing wrong?" :P

[katherinka.livejournal.com]

Nice link )))
But I have correction to one word on second page. Not жиртрес but жиртрест (greasetrust). It comes from name of sort of factory before World War II.
Havent find how to correct there ((( only adding mode.

[bokh.livejournal.com]

You probably should add your variant... To be honest, I think I mostly heard жиртрес without the t where I grew up (с Урала мы). I always assumed the трес part comes from "трясти", similarly to, e.g. лоботряс.

Yup, there definitely are regional differences ;)