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  2. 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]

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used.

  6. Category:Russian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Russian-language surnames (1 C, 2,340 P) Pages in category "Russian words and phrases" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.

  7. Calambur - Wikipedia

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    In the end the host whispers what word was "under the sound of "P"." You wrote, we played (Russian: Вы написали — мы сыграли) — a replacement of the Aperitif rubric for the third and fourth seasons, featuring sketches written by viewers for a contest. Most of the sent stories were already well-known among people or were ...

  8. Russian propaganda targeting Spanish-language users ... - AOL

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    Russian propaganda about Ukraine targeting Spanish-language users is spreading in outlets like Actualidad RT, teleSur, and HispanTV and on social media.

  9. 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.