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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is indeed a specific word Ukrainians are asking people to pronounce! This is what happens
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WarGamer
(12,484 posts)sukha = female dog
blyat = f**
yupt = mixture of sh*t and f***, exclamatory word
LisaL
(44,974 posts)But that's neither here nor there.
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)Swede
(33,282 posts)R'oh fucking r'oh!
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,434 posts)"Suka" is the word you're looking for, although there are certainly regional variants and jocular mispronunciations. And it's more "yob" than "yupt," especially because it's often only the start of a long string. Swearing in Slavic languages should be its own minor within the study.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)NT
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)In Cyrillic it's: сука.
Just so there are no questions left.
FM123
(10,054 posts)I think I would like to learn to say that word.....
LisaL
(44,974 posts)this.
Looks like Ukrainians are rounding up people who they think have an accent. Fun times.
They are clearly in a very suspicious mood right now. And might not appreciate your efforts if you show up there to fight.
FakeNoose
(32,752 posts)I'm not sure how many Ukrainians can speak or understand English. The younger ones probably got some English in school, and the internet.
Swede
(33,282 posts)They are looking for Russians.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Good luck.
Swede
(33,282 posts)If I did I would have a Canadian accent. Ukrainians are looking for Russian speakers with a Russian accent.
Igel
(35,356 posts)If they're not locals.
They'll do stupid things like pronounce "Kyiv" "Keef." That first vowel ... so not Russian.
There are also differences in aspiration and palatalization. Then the whole lenited / g / as a pharyngeal that DU's interface doesn't like.
There are differences in voicing sandhi.
Some things are easy to get right. But others are completely unconscious and deep-seated in Russian speech patterns by age 3. Hard to recognize them, much less undo them.
Curious back in the '90s, I dug up a bunch of the scholarly writings on the differences. A lot of the distinctions are subtle, exactly where in vowel space you put Ukrainian / y / and how it contrasts with / i / in Russian and Ukrainian.
I can read a fair bit of Ukrainian, but I open my mouth to read it and Ukrainian speakers want to know if I'm speaking Bulgarian. Or Serbian. They're too nice to suggest that it's Russian-botched Ukrainian overlaid with an American English accent.
As for mimicking a Ukrainian Russian accent? Just not even thinkable in my case.
crickets
(25,983 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)let us know.
I saw a person mention it on one thread, but I assume they changed their mind. Not that I blame them, but still.
canuckledragger
(1,666 posts)You haven't outed yourself yet