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Originally Posted by Dammian
But where should I start with my 1st posting on Cellar?  |
You have started in a fine place!
Spassiba and puhjahulsta make up a good percentage of my Russian vocabulary as well. I also know "Yob Tvyoo Maht" and "Yahitza kuritzu ni uchat" (which I apparently say with a very good accent, according to a Russian doctor that I used to work with).
Wow. Trying to type Russian phoenetically is much harder than to write it in Cyrillic. If I think about it very, very hard I can recall the sounds associated with most of the letters. That backwards "R" is an "a" thing tends to throw English speakers for a loop! (that just means it confuses us easily.) I took a year of Russian in college, but since the class met at 8AM I didn't make it to class as often as I should have, and also didn't retain much. I keep meaning to give Russian another try.
'splainin just means "explaining". There was an American television show in the 1950s called "I Love Lucy." Real life husband and wife Desi Arnez and Lucille Ball played Ricky and Lucy Ricardo. Ricky was Cuban, and had a strong accent. Whenever Lucy would do something bad and he found out about it, he would say to her, "Lucy, you got some 'splainin to do."