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Posted September 02, 2009
COMMUNISTS!
Sorry, cold war reflex. I need a bit of linguistic help, a friend of mine was telling me earlier that the phoenetic russian for "I love you" sounds near identical to the phoenetic english for "yellow blue bus".
This sounds like something from one of those bullshit emails that've been bouncing around since darpanet, is this even vaguely true or does it at least have some basis in a sound where if you heard an echo of it over a phone in another room when you weren't paying attention might sound sort of like it?
I'm not planning to use it on a mail order bride or anything (then again, if I get this job...), I just want to settle my bullshitometer.
Posted September 02, 2009
This is relevant to my interests
So I found evidence supporting the notion that what you say is correct.
Also this one, but it -is- yahoo answers.
Posted September 02, 2009
I = Я = Ya
love (depending on context, I believe) = люблю = lublu
you (also depending on context) = вас = bas
All in all, "yellow blue bus" seems a pretty decent approximation.
All with the help of a slight knowledge of Cyrillic characters and additional help from google translate and wikipedia.
... now, I hope the GOG.com forums is made with unicode in mind (or at least some encoding of Cyrillic characters), else this post will look weird.
EDIT: Yep, it worked.
Post edited September 02, 2009 by Miaghstir
Posted September 02, 2009
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Aliasalpha: COMMUNISTS!
Sorry, cold war reflex. I need a bit of linguistic help, a friend of mine was telling me earlier that the phoenetic russian for "I love you" sounds near identical to the phoenetic english for "yellow blue bus".
This sounds like something from one of those bullshit emails that've been bouncing around since darpanet, is this even vaguely true or does it at least have some basis in a sound where if you heard an echo of it over a phone in another room when you weren't paying attention might sound sort of like it?
I'm not planning to use it on a mail order bride or anything (then again, if I get this job...), I just want to settle my bullshitometer.

It is really close to the truth, Capitalist friend :-). Spelling it directly is - "Ya lyublyu vas". So no bullshiting there. :-)
Posted September 02, 2009
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w0rma: . Spelling it directly is - "Ya lyublyu vas".

Ah, yes, B=V, I miss that one every now and then.
Posted September 02, 2009
Well I've learnt something today.
Will try that on my wife tonight.
Posted September 02, 2009
ooh not only help but blue help! All I need is a yellow bus and I'm set. Off to america!
Thanks guys, weird shit but cool
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Krankor: Well I've learnt something today.
Will try that on my wife tonight.

I've got some other suggestions you could try. Do you own a video camera, an iguana and a jar of crunchy peanut butter (won't work with smooth)?
Post edited September 02, 2009 by Aliasalpha
Posted September 02, 2009
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Aliasalpha: ooh not only help but blue help! All I need is a yellow bus and I'm set. Off to america!
Thanks guys, weird shit but cool
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Krankor: Well I've learnt something today.
Will try that on my wife tonight.

I've got some other suggestions you could try. Do you own a video camera, an iguana and a jar of crunchy peanut butter (won't work with smooth)?

LOL!
Posted September 02, 2009
edit: ignore. someone got it already. didn't see that at first. can we delete posts?
Post edited September 02, 2009 by cioran
Posted September 02, 2009
Nope, post something useful damnit!
Posted September 02, 2009
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Aliasalpha: ooh not only help but blue help! All I need is a yellow bus and I'm set. Off to america!
Thanks guys, weird shit but cool
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Krankor: Well I've learnt something today.
Will try that on my wife tonight.

I've got some other suggestions you could try. Do you own a video camera, an iguana and a jar of crunchy peanut butter (won't work with smooth)?

This post deserves rep LOL.
Posted September 02, 2009
Update : She loved it (even though I accidentally put on an indian accent).
Later I'll show her the peanut butter.
Posted September 02, 2009
Hahaha nice
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