[OT] Quarrels

[Diode]

Japanese eat horse-radish by the tonne. I prefer not to know if they use a dick to harvest it!

Well, to sum it up. XPEHOPE3KA - is the compound word from substantive XPEH (general sense - horse-radish; figurative sense - dick), and PE3KA (cutter). You can compare that with a noun 'cock' which means both bird and penis.

Cheers.

[SQUIRE]

XPEHOPE3KA - is the compound word...

Thx for that Diode, very informative. I'll have to slightly modify my Russo-Japanese compound word to read: XWASABEOPE3KA then.
Looks even cooler to my eye too! Now I need a suitable avatar....

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 16-06-2006 07:48:03 +0000 SQUIRE wrote:

S> I'll have to slightly modify my Russo-Japanese compoundord
S> to read: XWASABEOPE3KA then

Actually, "O" is superfluous here - in "XPEHOPE3KA" it added to break two consonants, but in your compound there already is "E", so "O" is just useless vowel. And to look Cyrillic it should be inscribed like e.g.:

BACA6[/face]|/|[face=courier]PE3KA

But the worst thing here is - it doesn't sound funny for Russians... %)

P.S. BTW, there are a lot of wonderful Russian words of this sort one can use as nick, e.g.:

[/face]>|<[face=courier]O[/face]|^|[face=courier]OPE3,
4[/face]/\[face=courier]EHOPY6,
or even XPEHOXBAT

Do not hesitate to use them if you want to improve your image.[/face]

[SQUIRE]

But the worst thing here is - it doesn't sound funny for Russians... %)

Well, it wasn't meant to do that, and I'm sure the Japanese aren't hugely impressed either. It's a completely playful nonsensical construct which doesn't obey the grammatical rules of any language AFAIK and is therefore totally meaningless. Just the overall aesthetic of the letter combination attracted me and to my eye it appears rather more Aztec-like than Cyrillic. Whatever, I liked its 'look' and could not care less for its meaning.

It can be quite fascinating just tossing unrelated words into the the air to see what patterns develop when they crash-land. IIRC, a famous musician (was it David Bowie or Lennon?) used to endlessly cut out words from the newspapers to paste them together in no sensible order and with scant regard for syntax, grammar, or meaning. He claimed that he derived inspiration from looking at the resulting unorthodox word combinations and pseudo sentences. Might be why we got curious lyrics like:

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Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan.

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He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

Now there's disturbingly weird colour, strangeness and charm!

[majkinetor !]

One out of 4 people in this land is mentally unbalanced. Think of your 3 closest friends.
If they seem OK, you're the one.

NO nOn NOOOOOOOO

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2 majkinetor !

LOL! You is right - there are but 51 cards in my deck. For no particular reason the idea of opening a European pub chain called 'OT Quarrels' to compete with the American chain TGI Friday came into my mind. Its logo would be a highly stylised, warped red-white-blue diskette with a strangely melted look. Would you like to manage the Belgrade branch?

[XPEHOPE3KA]

2SQUIRE

You is right

Is it correct in English?

And yes, XPEHOPE3KA does obey grammatical rules of the Russian language. It just sounds differently: <hrenorezka>

2Black Dog
My nick seems to be less offensive-sounding And it really can be understood in either way
Anyway, you've got now famous 3A4OT for your post

[SQUIRE]

Is it correct in English?

It's clearly abominable grammar in formal English, but harmless fun if you meant it in a jocular 'street' style. Black American-English colloquial speech is the culprit here e.g. 'Is we friends or is we ain't?" and "You's right, I's wrong". Jamaicans strain the language even further by using ' I and I' instead of 'we'. Call it poetic licence!

It just sounds differently: <hrenorezka>

Interesting - having zero Russian, I had no idea 'XPEHOPE3KA' could even be pronounced! Does 'X' have the 'hrr' sound then? I had imagined it to be silent.

[Hacker]

SQUIRE,
'X' would correspond to the English 'Kh'.

HTH
Roman

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 17-06-2006 18:51:21 +0000 Hacker wrote:

Hi, Jedi.

H> 'X' would correspond to the English 'Kh'

Russian letter's "Õ" (that looks exactly like Latin "X") name is "ha", like archivator %).[/face]

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 17-06-2006 15:44:30 +0000 XPEHOPE3KA wrote:

X> 2Black Dog

KTO 3DEC?!

X> My nick seems to be less offensive-sounding :)

Oh, what can be offensive in e.g. [/face]>|<[face=courier]O[/face]|^|[face=courier]OPE3 - it's a common-use name for GPRS data transfer technology! %)))

X> And it really can be understood in either way

Come on, kid... %)

X> Anyway, you've got now famous 3A4OT for your post

What can I say...

A[/face]0|0[face=courier]TAP, Y6E[/face]|/|[face=courier] C[/face]|/|[face=courier]6[/face]9|[face=courier]!

%)))

P.S. Guys, and you'd better Y4[/face]|/|TE[face=courier] A[/face]/\[face=courier]6AHCK[/face]|/|[face=courier].[/face]

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 17-06-2006 17:09:08 +0000 SQUIRE wrote:

S> Interesting - having zero Russian, I had no idea 'XPEHOPE3KA'
S> could even be pronounced!

LOL!!!

So after all you missed the whole thing?! %)))[/face]

[SQUIRE]

2 Black Dog:

Damn right, the whole thing seems to have gone right over over my head!

Hmm, the use of these non-alphabetic characters like >|< and ^ has me baffled, I have to say. Are they used as a substitute for Cyrillic characters which wouldn't be displayed correctly in a Latin alphabet, or are they a code which a native Russian-speaker would easily understand? Or are they a Russian form of l33t-speak?

2 Hacker:

Heh, to add to the confusion, a leading X in Romanised Chinese carries the 'sh' sound - like telling someone to be quiet, but through clenched teeth.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 18-06-2006 15:04:25 +0000 SQUIRE wrote:

S> Hmm, the use of these non-alphabetic characters like >|< and ^
S> has me baffled, I have to say.

Well, in this case [/face]>|<[face=courier] stands for Cyrillic letter "Æ" ("zhe") that sounds like English "zh".

S> Are they used as a substitute for Cyrillic characters which wouldn't be
S> displayed correctly in a Latin alphabet
[^Y]
S> Or are they a Russian form of l33t-speak?

I gues, both - this is a way to avoid Cyrillic symbols and make it 1337-look.

Actually, in common case of Russian transliteration regular English phonemes used, e.g. "zhoporez" not [/face]>|<[face=courier]O[/face]|^|[face=courier]OPE3, so it is readable for English-speakers. So I guess in our case this Russian 7r4[/face]|\|[face=courier]s1337 is a way to tease (or mock %) English-speakers %).[/face]

[Hacker]

Black Dog,

"Õ"

"Æ"

These letters seem to be displayed incorrectly in Firefox using the ISO-8859-1, UTF8 or Windows-1252 encodings. Just to let you know.

Roman