Some tidbits about Russian

[skemono]

I recently learned some interesting facts about Russian.

For one, мир ("Mir") means both "peace" and "world", which leads to the neat phrase МИРУ МИР: "Peace to the World".

Also, the word восток ("vah-stoke") is Russian for "east". A town on the east coast of Russia, Владивосток ("vlah-dee-vah-stoke") is a combination of that and the verb

Comments

[droug]

You know, if they make a habit of making sylable stresses a major distinction in words (that flour, torment one being the best *ever*) they must have worse pun users than we *could* in English. Thank god our fathers weren't *actually* Soviet. Just Jewish or Communist.

[old_fortissimo]

Ya ne nitchevo znayu.

I tried using actual Cyrillic but it came out as even worse gibberish.

Bozhe moi.

[skemono]

I had to use the Unicode values for them.

What does 'nitchevo' mean?