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CowperKettle

03:30

Word of the morn: ventifact

> A ventifact (also wind-faceted stone, windkanter[1]) is a rock that has been abraded, pitted, etched, grooved, or polished by wind-driven sand or ice crystals

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Anonymous

06:14

Paging Doctor @CowperKettle! I've got a question.

Anonymous

How do you pronounce Непомнящий?

Jasper

Doctor CowperKettle is not here at the moment.

This is his assistant.

However, his assistant does not speak Russian.

Anonymous

Hello, Doctor Assistant!

Anonymous

Does it have a /ʃtʃ/ sequence at the end?

Jasper

Interestingly, pasting the word into translate.google.com gives you the pronunciation as well, but I don't know how accurate that is.

Anonymous

06:22

If I spelled it correctly, it's the name of a Russian chess player.

Anonymous

If I didn't, it's the name of a Russian chess player spelled incorrectly.

Jasper

I just pasted 'I like apples' to be translated into Chinese. The translation is good, and the pronunciation of the sentence in both languages is good.

@CowperKettle I don't understand. What is funny about the song?

CowperKettle

@snailboat forvo.com/word/…

Nye-pom-nya-schiy

@snailboat It means "one who does not remember"

@Jasper The original video clip is so inept and cliche, and reminds of the earliest video clips made in the 1980s in the Soviet Union. It's hilarious.

@snailboat I guess it has. I'm not sure with all these fancy symbols! )))

@snailboat Happy New Year!

Jasper

@CowperKettle If I didn't hear wrongly, I think the answer is no. That sequence sounds like sh-ch, as in shoe and cheat.

Anonymous

06:40

Maybe it would be /ʃtʃ/ in Ukranian and not Russian?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Or if you have allergies

Aʃtʃoooooo

CowperKettle

Будь здоров! (Bud' Zdorov!)

When a person snoozes, another person must say Bud Zdorov! (Be healthy!)

Сова, Будь здорова. Я не чихала

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Here in the Vinnie the Pooh cartoon, the Owl's pronunciation reminds snoozing

So Vinnie the Pooh constantly repeats "Bud zdorova!"

And the Owl says "I did not snooze!"

And when she finally starts snoozing, Vinnie forgots to say "bud zdorova"

*forgets

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle Zdorov to you too bud

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THEGreatGatsby

08:22

The David Rubenstein Show: Steve Ballmer

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what is he saying 7:25

I was an assistant to the president , Bill Gate's assistant

basically ( ** word word cook and book 0 ? ??

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