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It took a good 5 minutes read of the entire blog post to understand that "Do Svidaniya" is actually "До Свидания" (Russian), meaning "until next time/Goodbye".

by devy 5y ago

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ianai 5y ago
I thought maybe it was somebody's name and just a really horribly formed sentence. Because, ya know...
jacquesm 5y ago
Listen to more Zemfira...
- p2t2p 5y ago
  Wanna me to kill the neighbours that won't let you sleep? Vow, for a rare occasion that one translates rather nicely.
leeoniya 5y ago
i speak russian fluently and still parsed the title as "Do" + <indian name>
- symb0lik 5y ago
  I'm not fluent, but I've been studying for 3 years now. I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words. When I see Cyrillic, my brain immediately switches to Russian. When it's latin sounding out Russian, it takes a stupid amount of time for me to realize and comprehend what they are trying to say.
  - asveikau 5y ago
    Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? Seems like there are also french influenced transliterations for vowels. These can be inconsistent based on the source.
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      > Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. Yeah, that leads to the question of which transliteration to use. > One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Eng Michael(?) Gorbachev, Ger Michail Gorbatschow, Swe Mikhail Gorbatjov... > Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? 'Xackly: Eng/Ger Boris Yeltsin, Swe Boris Jeltsin.
  - justsomehnguy 5y ago
    > I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words Except nobody knows how the Russian characters even sounds: https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9 https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9

It took a good 5 minutes read of the entire blog post to understand that "Do Svidaniya" is actually "До Свидания" (Russian), meaning "until next time/Goodbye".

by devy 5y ago

It took a good 5 minutes read of the entire blog post to understand that "Do Svidaniya" is actually "До Свидания" (Russian), meaning "until next time/Goodbye".

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ianai 5y ago

I thought maybe it was somebody's name and just a really horribly formed sentence. Because, ya know...

jacquesm 5y ago

Listen to more Zemfira...

p2t2p 5y ago
Wanna me to kill the neighbours that won't let you sleep? Vow, for a rare occasion that one translates rather nicely.

leeoniya 5y ago

i speak russian fluently and still parsed the title as "Do" + <indian name>

symb0lik 5y ago
I'm not fluent, but I've been studying for 3 years now. I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words. When I see Cyrillic, my brain immediately switches to Russian. When it's latin sounding out Russian, it takes a stupid amount of time for me to realize and comprehend what they are trying to say.
- asveikau 5y ago
  Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? Seems like there are also french influenced transliterations for vowels. These can be inconsistent based on the source.
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    > Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. Yeah, that leads to the question of which transliteration to use. > One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Eng Michael(?) Gorbachev, Ger Michail Gorbatschow, Swe Mikhail Gorbatjov... > Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? 'Xackly: Eng/Ger Boris Yeltsin, Swe Boris Jeltsin.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  > I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words Except nobody knows how the Russian characters even sounds: https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9 https://youtu.be/m0i8IBZklZg?t=9