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

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. What's really sad here is that I actually went and checked your memories as one of the first things I did to try and look for this. I apparently had the research skills of a gnat last night.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

You know, I think there was a confluence of Christian-related frothing linked to from fandom_wank around then, too. By July (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fwank_icons/2268.html), the phrase was in common enough use to be an understandable reference in an icon. Hrm.

From my LJ entries of 4/19-23/2003, there should be entries in fandom_wank, and possibly fandom_lounge and fandom_rant, for that time period... where lots of folks were jumping all over the "like Jesus, in a way" joke with clever text and icons, and I vaguely remember them, but I just can't locate them right now. Very odd.

Bah. I must be losing my mind. Or at least bits of my auxilliary brain. :-P

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

And there's an instance of the phrase in May (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/54738.html), too.