possibly a stupid question...

[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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[kasak.livejournal.com]

До свидания!

It means "good bye." It just sounds like one word when they say it. In fact, I myself will just say свидания sometimes, leaving out the до completely. But that's because I learned Russian from my family of expatriot ex-Tsarist peasants. So who knows if you can really say it like that, or my teachers and people I know who speak Russian are just tolerating it? Blah.

[costumier.livejournal.com]

thanks! so was it like chalk on a blackboard to read my attempt of the phrase? you're lucky that you're family has maintained the language. i should be able to speak hungarian and italian, but my two grandfathers (one a dead-beat and the other a wannabe w.a.s.p.) kinda put a stop to it. you have a really interesting family history!

[karakal.livejournal.com]

Do svidaniya (до свидания) - goodbye. Almost literally - 'see you later'. Absolutely literally - 'goodbye until our next meeting'.

[costumier.livejournal.com]

many thanks...