allo! привет!
school has commenced! and on a totally chill note at that. Only one class left to visit...and that is tomorrow :D So far Russian is awesome.
The prof is actually italian, but she has a "russian soul", has been teaching russian for 35 years. Has some form of mushroom cut, reddish hair and was wearing a blue kinda house dress with funky designs all over, and platform shoes. Made all of us name tags and put labels all over the class room like "enter" "exit" "Break", all in cyrillics though.
She says that in russia it's a compliment to tell someone they're a cucumber (or something like that...that's what I had remembered). So I decided to test my theory.
On friday, I went to see one of my russian friends. Hello, what's up, blah blah blah. Then I said *thinking I'm so witty* "You're a cucumber!"
He looks at me very confused and says "what da hell are you saying?"
*looks around* HAHAH doot de doo..."Well see my russian teacher said if you tell someone they're a cucumber it's a compliment"
"oooooh noooooo, that's completely different. It's you're like a cucumber...and it's not exactly used in that way. It's more like if say, you have a hangover and you tell them if you do this remedy, you'll be as fresh as a cucumber".
Ah, makes sense. This could be used on Anti-perspirant commercials. Or for that Dove cucumber green tea soap.
Like, imagine you're gardening and you're all sweaty and stinky...dude your anti-perspirant just ain't doin it for ya. So a new one comes along "Lady Speed Stick's new line of vegetable scented anti-perspirants. With 24/7 protection. You'll be as fresh as a cucumber, all day, everyday."
And then, the gardening lady takes a bite out of the cucumber at that instant.
It seems a little more ridicuoulous when it comes to shower soap because I don't eat cucumbers in the shower. But that soap is actually good.
Also, all insults in russian become worse if you add "mother" to it.
Say you wanna tell someone "go to hell"...it's more like "I'll send you to the devil". What could be worse than that? "I'll send you to the devil's mother!". Oh shit, we're all doomed. :o
Alright, time to practice more script cyrillics and read stuff.
Toodles
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