#slavic stuff

[fruity-m0nster]

is this anything

[cringelordofchaos]

m becoming obsessed w Slavic memes

[phoenixyfriend]

Is "Whistling will bring mice into the house" a thing for you guys?

Like do your moms tell you not to whistle indoors out of fear of attracting rodents? Or is it just a Slavic/EE thing? (My family is Serbian, so I'm going off of that.)

[zhimaqiu]

Wiecie jak to Amerykanie narzekają, że ktoś nie wie jak napisać ich imię, bo rodzice wybrali całkiem inną pisownię imienia od tej regularnej?

Mam ochotę im wyjebać. Pani Maju i tak mnie denerwuje, bo przypomina mi się "Nie rozumiem" po Rosyjsku, ale Pani Majo to tak kurwa niepoprawne, że ze Skarbnicy NARODOWEJ to jeszcze większy wstyd

[terminalthrillness]

People who think Baba Yaga is a joke truly don’t understand what it was like to grow up in genuine fear of her catching and eating you.

[dykoluv]

Such a pretty Boris

[acertaincritic]

I could write a lot about "Tress of the Emerald Sea" but I'm too tired, so let me just say that for Hoid-Brandon to dis socks in sandals so much is pretty polonophobic of him.

[flootzavut]

I'm wheezing why is this so accurate

slavic languages gothic

You see a sentence written in cyrillic. Some of the letters are familiar. You see the meaning shimmering underneath the surface. You almost grasp it, but it slips away. The letters on the page mock you silently. You know this Czech word. You’ve already learnt it in Polish. It is not the same word. It is a grave insult. Your slavic friends are shocked and embarassed for you when they hear you speak it.

There is a sentence in Croatian. There is a sentence in Serbian. There is a sentence in Bosnian. They are all the same sentence.

You have to write about your day in Slovak. You spend the night polishing the draft. You fail your assigment. It’s written in Czech. You don’t know Czech.

P is not what it seems. You have to remember that.

The Croatian sentence does not mean what the Bosnian sentence means. They both mean the same in Serbian.

That word has a diminutive. The diminutive has its own diminutive. The diminutive of the diminutive also has a diminutive. Nobody knows what the final diminutive of a word is. Some say the knowledge had been lost in centuries past and matrioshkas are the echo, the tangible warning left for us to remember. No living creature should hold the means of diminishing something into nonexistence. Others say you may still find some of them in old soviet textbooks, if you dare to look in abandoned schools of Chernobyl.

Someone is speaking to you. Is that a he or a she? You aren’t sure. It’s an abstract concept. Why does it have gender.

You see a word in a dictionary. It has seventeen letters and only one vowel. You close the dictionary very carefully not looking at the phonetic transcription. The shape of it haunts you in your sleep. You wake up face damp with tears, a bitter taste on your tongue. The clock blinks 3:03AM. You do not dare look up that word again.

This word means the same thing in the five slavic languages you’re familiar with. You use it in the sixth one. That word does not exist in this language. It never did. There is now a word-shaped void in the fabric of this language. The natives look at you uneasily. There is a new quality to the silence and your palms start to sweat. H is not H. H is not H. H is not H. H is not H. One day you flip through your dictionary. A page is missing. What was the word? You can’t remember. There is pressure building at the back of your head. The clock blinks 3:03AM.

You write my name is in cyrillic. There are shadows dancing on the walls. They grow longer with each letter you write down. It is not cyrillic you’re using. You keep writing my name is. The shadows now bleed from the tip of your pen. It’s irrelevant. You need to remember the right letters.

N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not N is not… If only you could remember the letters. The letters are important. What was it, that wasn’t N?

There are nine different prefixes you can add to a verb to change its meaning. There are fifty three different suffixes you have to add to a verb to make it work. In the end the only thing left of the original is a vague shape of one of its middle consonants. You can feel the anguish radiating from the verb’s mutialted form. A desperate sob escapes through your clenched teeth. You’re so, so sorry, you didn’t meant to. You didn’t. It doesn’t matter.

You now read a text in Russian. You’ve never learnt Russian. Why are you reading that text? The words burn your eyes, the meaning searing your mind.

There’s a shot of vodka in front of you. You don’t drink alcohol. You don’t care. All existence is meaningless, your soul’s in eternal pain. A broken matrioshka lays at your feet. There is no salvation, she says boring into your eyes. You open your mouth to answer, but there is only a burst of harsh rustle. It dies in whispering echoes a moment later. Your glass is empty again.

[cringelordofchaos]

I had recently been informed that there are apparently posts on tiktok about people posting about how much they loveeee the 'slavic aesthetic' and as a fellow slav that is the funniest shit ever to me bc i imagine it's a bunch of shit like this

(i tried searching up "Slavic bad economic empty streets" but there aren't many accurate results and I'm too lazy to go out and take a picture of them myself)

[phoenixyfriend]

"We need to make a statement" okay could you do that without lighting a match near the fucking powder keg of Europe

The UN may be trying to start another war in the Balkans in order to make a statement about Israel.

Like I don't think the collective Serb response is rational, I would LOVE it if the Republic of Serbia and the Serbian Republic could just let this pass without comment, but it's also not unexpected. You. You had to know they'd start yelling about secession again. You had to know that it was a bad time with all the recent attempts at illegal referendums. You had to know how sensitive of a subject this is. Like yeah in a vacuum this is a sensible and reasonable action to take, death on that scale should be recognized, but you know what the Balkans are like, do you really think this is a good idea??? Could you really not wait a few years for the risk of violence, possibly backed by Russia, to go down a bit?

Come on!

[zhimaqiu]

i just can't get over the fact that yuri on ice dub says "pierożki" so beautifully and they don't add another s. finally someone respectful

[neonmaycry]

You're absolutely right

"The Cat and the Rooster", Ukrainian folk tale. Illustrated by Viktor Kavun (Ukraine, 1981).

[neonmaycry]

It was difficult to make this week worse, but there was a call from my grandmother and she just started speaking

[cringelordofchaos]

What the actual living fuck is this. (Not my image)

The psychology of some of these people deeply horrifies me I don't know if I'd rather study them in a lab or run away as fast as possible because they would literally probably want me to die

I know there are much more serious stuff in the world right now I'm just so fucking pissed about this for some reason maybe I'm just an oversensitive prick idk

[phoenixyfriend]

Hey hi hello I have a QUESTION (please don't google the answer before you vote)

Based on a video I just saw where someone pronounced it uhhhh wrong

(Read all the options to make sure you choose correctly)

To clarify, I understand not knowing how to pronounce foreign place names. That's a problem every person on earth has at one point or another.

In this case, the utter shock that tossed me out of my viewing experience was that this is a professional who lives in Europe and was doing a section of the video on this city. I would expect someone in that position to look up the pronunciation for the video, and I would also... not be surprised if this is the default pronunciation among anglophone speakers, even though it's Wrong.

[zhimaqiu]

well that's just great

jutro (polish) - tomorrow

jutro (croatian) - morning