Jun. 28th, 2003

[identity profile] ugly-boy.livejournal.com
A recent post reminded me of a question that I had even before I was interested specifically in Russian: The Russian pop duo Tatu's album is called 200|по встречной which is transltated into English (this is off the top of my head, it could be wrong) as 200 kilometers per hour [km/hr] in the wrong lane. How can the Russian title be only three words long while the English one is eight?! Keep in mind I'm a newbie and know hardly anything about the specifics of Russian grammar. Also, how do you say "200" ?
[identity profile] costumier.livejournal.com
there's a word that i hear alot in movies that take place in russia...now, i don't know the correct spelling (both in latin and cyrillic letters), but it sounds to me like "daspidania"... how butchered does that look? :-x does anyone know the word, what it means in english, and the correct cyrillic spelling?

thanks!

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