Things That Are Dirty and Russian

[schmerica]

A. I have already mentioned, in a previous entry, that the word for "how" in Russian is approximately "KAK", and thus pronounced similarly to "cock." You can imagine the amusement as I practice my vocabulary.

B. The word for "juice" is approximately "COK". The C is an "s" sound, and the O is longer, so it doesn't sound even vaguely similar. But still.

C. Today the professor started to try and explain to us the complexities of soft and hard consonants. One of the points she made had to do with what kind of vowels came after which categories of consonants -- which vowels, in fact, worked to "preserve the hardness" of the preceding consonants. She did in fact use this phrase several times. I did not giggle at any of them.

D. lyra_sena, I hate you. So much.

Also, on a note that is neither Russian nor dirty -- can anyone confirm or deny the connection between the phrase "I'm like Jesus, in a way" and the big Firefly vid kerfuffle? Because I was talking with tzikeh earlier, and she had no idea what I was talking about, and I find myself completely unable to bring up anything through google or selected ljs. Am I making this up or getting things confused?

ETA: Okay, geekturnedvamp helped me find the post in question -- it's about halfway down the page, here.

Succotash: How am I being selfish? What do I get out of it? I am PAYING for the bandwidth. It's a gift, I'm like Jesus, in a way. You remind me of Satan's little midget helper.

Yay for me not being insane!

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

for me, like jesus in a way originates with ms a and elijah wood. but it then, naturally, was in fandom_wank, and so could easily play into the firefly vid kerfluffle, about which i know absolutely nothing :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh, see, I know nothing about the ms a stuff. But the "Jesus, in a way" thing is really so amazingly classic it deserves to be quoted in all contexts, really.