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camwyn ([personal profile] camwyn) wrote2005-05-23 09:01 am
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Hey, does anyone here have enough Russian to help me out with some expletives in the Cyrillic alphabet? I have a picture that's crying out for a caption from Pulp Fiction, but since it concerns some Russian supernatural entities, I kind of wanted to do at least the bad word in the original language and alphabet...
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[identity profile] james-the-evil1.livejournal.com 2005-05-23 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.rustran.com/
Translates words & phrases in to Russian using Curillic, and it does obscene words
(AltaVista's Russian BabelFish won't)

[identity profile] james-the-evil1.livejournal.com 2005-05-23 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately it doesn't translate typos *sigh*
I meant CYRILLIC of course
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[personal profile] camwyn 2005-05-23 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, neat. Thanks!

[identity profile] cold-hope.livejournal.com 2005-05-23 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn. I am without expertise in this field.

Nevertheless, check John's journal.

[identity profile] corglacier7.livejournal.com 2005-05-27 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Camwyn, I studied three semesters of Russian, so yeah, I can transliterate.
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[personal profile] camwyn 2005-05-27 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, great. I'm looking to do an icon that takes the line from Pulp Fiction that goes "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?" and switch it to "Russian, *insert Russian word for motherfucker*!" I've found a couple of web sites that give me a Roman alphabet version of the word, but I dunno if I trust them since I haven't got a copy of Wicked Russian or anything like that.

[identity profile] corglacier7.livejournal.com 2005-05-27 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
If the translation you got in Roman alphabet was "mudak" (prounced "moo-daahck"), this is the Cyrillic (and let's hope LJ supports it.)

МУДАК

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[personal profile] camwyn 2005-05-27 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That's one of the ones I got. The other one I got started with a 'ye' but seemed a bit more open to interpretations other than the one I specifically wanted, so that should do nicely. Thank you!

[identity profile] corglacier7.livejournal.com 2005-05-27 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If it was "yeb' tvoyu mat'", or something similar, it isn't the more colloquial "motherfucker/dumbass/whatever". That's a pretty big insult that directly means "(I) fuck your mother!"
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[personal profile] camwyn 2005-05-27 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That's roughly what it looked like, yeah. Which is why I wanted to get the words from someone who knew what they were talking about first.

[identity profile] corglacier7.livejournal.com 2005-05-27 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hehehe. That's smart. The "yeb' tvoyu" is considered pretty much the worst insult in the Russian language.

Now I'd be interested to see this pretty icon when it's done! :-D
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[personal profile] camwyn 2005-05-27 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a standing policy- never wear a piece of clothing or display a piece of art that has writing on it that I cannot myself read, or at least translate. It's just safer that way.
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