Re:Shadow brokers dump more NSA data
by grkvlt on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:57AM
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Not necessarily, you're overthinking this. It's just what anyone with basic vernacular knowledge of English but no actual Russian language skills would do to generate 'pseudo-Russian'. It's a pretty common idiom to make an English adjective into a Russian sounding one by adding '-ski' to the end of the word, and then to pluralise it, add -s to that, as in normal English.
So, for many small Russian cats, we have the following:
'Kitten' -> 'Kittenski' -> 'Kittenskis'
The definition of the '-ski' [1] suffix has some other examples. This advert [2] for yoghurt (and yes, it was for Ski unfortunately, and somehow they spent GBP 8.5 million on it...) from 2003 also used the same formulation. See also 'Eye Dialect' [3] used to show foreign or regional speakers in literature, or the use of a backwards 'R' character to create a faux cyrillic, Russian feel; as seen in the Tetris logo.
Re:Shadow brokers dump more NSA data
by Bartweiss on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:28AM
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I'm delighted that this whole thing led me to a discussion of 'eye dialect'. I've been fascinated by that sort of writing for years, and I never knew it had an actual name.
So, for many small Russian cats, we have the following:
The definition of the '-ski' [1] suffix has some other examples. This advert [2] for yoghurt (and yes, it was for Ski unfortunately, and somehow they spent GBP 8.5 million on it...) from 2003 also used the same formulation. See also 'Eye Dialect' [3] used to show foreign or regional speakers in literature, or the use of a backwards 'R' character to create a faux cyrillic, Russian feel; as seen in the Tetris logo.