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user-inactivated  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Non-American Users of Hubski, where are you from?

How come you're so deeply into the Russian language and culture? Are your parents Russian?

    until I say some strange word that everyone understands around here like recyclage (recycling in french).

Just say "ресайклинг", or "клининг", or whatever substantive you might derive from English. There's an odd obsession with English words in Russia currently - like it was with French at one point, I presume.





elizabeth  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, that's exaclty what I do except I say 'ресиклаж' . Or stuff like 'пошли в даун таун '. I don't have many examples, but I remember getting a lot of weird looks in Russia with people asking me what I meant.

Yeah, my parents are (kinda) russian, emigrated to Canada in the 90's. I say kinda because in the USSR, it was all one big country and my roots are actually Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian, Belorus and not so much russian but my parents grew up in Soviet Culture and only spoke russian so culturally, I say they're russian. It's easier than explaining my whole family history to anyone that asks :P

user-inactivated  ·  3088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And where exactly is the downtown in Russian cities?