Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:00:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joacim Persson <joacim-AT-ymex.net>
Subject: Re: Fw: Ummm.....


On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Volodya V Anarhist wrote:

> > Anyone speaking Swahili? Neo-melanesian? How about
> > Klingon? Lojban? ;)
> > Joacim
> 
> Russian?
> 
> > Freedom is the father of invention.
> 
> (transletterated)
> Svoboda - mat' izobretatel'nosti

Ah, thank you.

Hey! How do I know it doesn't mean something like...
"hot oxygen in the plastic bag" or "May I boil you liver, ma'am"
(I would)

Some years ago, I had a good time with my CB radio one day when the
channels were full of russian taxi drivers or truck drivers or whatever it
was. It sounded like adresses, what they were yelling about.

I have this tape somewhere... "russian for travellers"

So I started transmitting "Excuse me, how do I get to the hotel?"
and other silly phrases like that in Russian.

One guy started answering back "sjsjsjjs hotel? hshshsh...nje panjemajo!..."
(what it sounded like. Guess he meant he didn't understand. Like I cared.)
"How much for the bread?"
"nje panjemajo!!"
"You're welcome"
"nje panjemajo!!"
...

We continued our surreal conversation for a while, until he yelled "job
tvojumadj!" and vanished from the channel. How very rude of him.


> I had to use english letters... since this list and yahoo
> will mess everything up trying to send russian to
> eachother...

Doesn't fit into iso-8859-1 anyway. ;)


Joacim
--
Friheten är uppfinningens fader.  Freedom is the father of invention.  La
liberté est le père de l'invention.  A liberdade é o pai da invenção.  La
libertà è il padre dell'invenzione.  Freiheit ist der Vater der Erfindung.
Frelsið látur naktri konu að spinna.  Vrijstelling is het vader van
vinding.  Licentia est abbas reperio.  Vapaus on isältä keksiminen.
Rhyddid ydy'r dadogi chan chrebwyll.  Svoboda - mat' izobretatel'nosti