• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      In Russian? There are like five basic words you make your obscene lexics from (like ‘fuck’ in English), and хуй (khooy) is one of them, meaning dick, and хуйня (khooy-nya) is a thing related to a dick in a bad way, like a borked project or a complicated situation, while not having a direct translation on it’s own. Something like, ehm, a dick-thing? as it’s a noun, just like хуета (khu-e-tah), meaning the same. There are also an adverb хуёво (khoo-yovo) meaning something isn’t going great, and забил хуй (zah-beel khooy) when you discarded your dick in that situation and don’t give a fuck about what’s going on.

      Many of them you can hear on the recordings from the ongoing war.

      I’m not sure I’ve understood you correctly, so you can specify what you want to know.

      • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        My post was mainly a joke, however, I find your comments extremely interesting and well worded.

        That last example “забил хуй (zah-beel khooy)”. I find very amusing and I can grasp the feeling. Google translates it literally to being “Hammered the dick”.

        Is that accurate?

        I think slang and vulgar terms are fascinating and tell a lot about the culture that produced them. I even go so far as to say, swearing is one of the most illuminating things there is to language.

        Thank you so much for sharing!

        Speaking of the ongoing war, did you catch this video?

        https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/y5l3vi/ukrainians_intercepted_communication_between/

        (Sorry for the Reddit link, it’s the only place I’ve seen it.)

        How would you rate the translation of the subtitles?