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  2. Russian jokes - Wikipedia

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    The sound the spoon makes will be the name of the newborn. (see Chinese names) The initial report on the first Chinese human spaceflight: "All systems operational, boiler-men on duty!" A good many of the jokes are puns based on the fact that a widespread Chinese syllable (written as hui in pinyin) looks very similar to the obscene Russian word ...

  3. Chastushka - Wikipedia

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    A chastushka (plural: chastushki) is a simple rhyming poem which would be characterized derisively in English as doggerel.The name originates from the Russian word "часто" ("chasto") – "frequently", or from "частить" ("chastit"), meaning "to do something with high frequency" and probably refers to the high beat frequency of chastushki.

  4. Russian humour - Wikipedia

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    The most popular form of Russian humour consists of jokes (анекдоты — anekdoty), which are short stories with a punch line. Typical of Russian joke culture is a series of categories with fixed and highly familiar settings and characters. Surprising effects are achieved by an endless variety of plots and plays on words. [14]

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    In Russian, rrr ppp ru ru ру ру rum rum рум рум; In Slovenian, brum brum; In Spanish, rue fun; In Swedish, brum; In Telugu, raeyyyyyyy; In Thai, บรื๊น ๆ (bruen bruen) In Turkish, vrum vrum (truck), vrın vrın (car) In Vietnamese, bờ rừm

  6. Runglish - Wikipedia

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    Runglish has some peculiarities which distinguish it from regular English. That's because Russian language is a synthetic language: words in Russian use various morphemes, which depend on grammatical cases, declensions and some other traits; while, as a rule of thumb, every letter in Russian has its own only sound.

  7. Category:Russian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words

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  9. Mat (profanity) - Wikipedia

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    The mat-word "хуй" ("khuy") in Max Vasmer's Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [] (Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language). Heidelberg, 1950–1958. Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к, matershchina / materny yazyk) is the term for vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.