Cute things FSUW say (you can include FSU Kids too)

[2tallbill]

My friend Don posted this question somewhere else and there were a lot
of cute responses but I would like to hear some of the cute things your FSUW say.

I will give a few examples,

Once when I told an FSUW that I would write about my adventures she said
"But Beeel, I wheeel keeel you!" so, I made sure to get her approval when
I wrote about Dnepropetrovsk.

Quite often the words look and watch are mixed up. Angel Eyes might tell me
"Beel, please look baby",  means I am to watch the baby while she does something.

Other times common Russian metaphors, anecdotes, analogies or idioms won't
make the same sense when translated to English.

I am as white as a mushroom! Which means no tan.
I slept like a fireman. Is similar to sleeping like a baby. Apparently fireman sleep soundly.

If there is something cute or funny your FSUW said please post it here.

 

[Larry1]

I have a couple of examples, from my first FSUW girlfriend. She spoke English but wasn't fluent. She was giving me a tour of an old section of a town and told me "those houses were made with the help of wood."

One night in my sleep I stole the blanket from her and turned, wrapping myself up in it. She told me I was like a cabbage.

[ML]

I liked it when a FSU gal told me that I must come to her apartment to look at her tri-colored pussy.

Yes, she had learned English from a British source.

[2tallbill]

I liked it when a FSU gal told me that I must come to her apartment to look at her tri-colored pussy.

Yes, she had learned English from a British source.

Did you deny her the favor? 

[KenInUtah]

I have a couple;

She keeps calling it paperwall instead of wallpaper.  After a few months, she finally catches herself now.

The one I can't bear to correct her on is cat-male.  As in her cat is meowing because she wants a cat male as opposed to male cat.  Everytime I hear it I think of email for cats!

[calmissile]

I still remember when we first met and she advised me she was going to douche.  It was a few days before I discovered that douche applies to taking a shower or experiencing rainfall. 

[BillyB]

"I vant you" is one I've heard a lot. Cute and sexy.

[alex330]

Look baby, I just caught a fishcat!

[Photo Guy]

Vlad, age 3,
'You tell me I am so helpful... so why
do you sometimes punish me?'

Larysa, in Russian:
'Vova, tell Dajka your name in English.'
Vova:
'My name is Andrey'.
Okay... a sense of humor at age 3.
(Andrey is his friend's name in school)

[2tallbill]

One thing Angel Eyes always mixes up (in English)
is watching and looking.

Beeel, I am going to the garden, please look baby.
Beeel watch! there is a squirrel outside!

[Boethius]

General (imperfect) rule. 


Watch -(a baby) - prysmotry
Watch tv - posmotry (though it can be smotry to, LOL).
Look - smotry

[msmobyone]

I liked it when a FSU gal told me that I must come to her apartment to look at her tri-colored pussy.

Yes, she had learned English from a British source.

Then it would be tri-coloUred pussy 

[jone]

To this day, when my woman thinks something tastes good, it is 'Yammy'.  I like it so much, I can't bring myself to correct her.

[mhr7]

"I have bad news it is awful."

"What"?

"Phone broke, I was in dress shop and it felled, now I again like bum."

[2tallbill]

"I have bad news it is awful."

"What"?

"Phone broke, I was in dress shop and it felled, now I again like bum."

   hahaha  excellent story

[jone]

I still remember when we first met and she advised me she was going to douche.  It was a few days before I discovered that douche applies to taking a shower or experiencing rainfall.

We are very happy that you douche, too. 

[ML]

But no matter what it is called . . . always a good sign when they head for the shower.

I remember once, I brought a gal to my apartment in FSU after a first date.  I told her I was going into bathroom to wash off my eyes (my skin is oily and oil starts to burn when it gets into my eyes).

She said:  I am going to go wash much more than my eyes.

[ML]

Then it would be tri-coloUred pussy 

Oh yes . . . I did forget to misspell the word.

[Sailor291]

My UW once was cleaning house and could not remember "spider web", she kept trying to remember what it was in English to tell me but it just kept escaping her, so she finally said she had cleaned those "itsy bitsy spider things".  Myself and our daughter have laughed at that so many times since.  Our daughter makes fun of her mothers accent all the time and repeats this story to any who will listen. 

[TagUrIt898]

Polishka sometimes has trouble pronouncing her V's.  So instead of saying "video", it sounds more like "wideo".  She's aware of it and makes a conscious effort to correct herself (she wants to speak English properly ALL THE TIME), but I just think it's the cutest thing ever when she does it.

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[ML]

Virtually all Europeans have trouble with the V and W.

Most Ukrainians have trouble with 'th' also.

You will get used to them checking the 'wever' to see about the temperature tomorrow . . . maybe they will need to wear a 'lever' coat.

[SANDRO43]

Virtually all Europeans have trouble with the V and W.

Not entirely:

- Not much so in Latin languages: V and W are both V (W is not in the Latin alphabet, so it appears only in words from Germanic languages - it may be pronounced alternatively as U).
- More so in Germanic languages: V is F, W is V.

Most Ukrainians have trouble with 'th' also.

This is a problem in most Latin languages, since the sound exists only in Castilian Spanish (Z before any other letter, C before a weak vowel).

English has it too in a sense, since its orthography does not differentiate between its voiced (this) and voiceless (thin) variants as Anglo-Saxon did, and Arabic still does.

All in all, it is a common enough problem when using the Latin alphabet for a non-Latin language .

[msmobyone]

Cute / confusing ..

Russians like to remind us how 'rich' their language is..so I always wonder why they don't have separate words for fingers and toes...

When I first started dating with a Russian lass, in Cyprus - she kept reminding me of this 'richness' and I honestly thought she was teasing me about not having two separate words for the digits ....  So, it being April 1st, -evening - I told her the British had decimalised months and we had 10 in a year, called Deccies...

It only came out - much later - when I was the only natural English speaker at a dinner party - and the poor lass told her friends about our 'calender' and someone wanted to know what today's date was, in Britain...   

I learnt my limited Russian, the hard way....

[oso]

"My dear.....where is toilet, I need a drink"

When she talks about the radiator on the wall, she calls it a battery.....

A cactus fish = catfish

 Engagement peddle = clutch peddle

[2tallbill]

Angel Eyes calls any spirit (except vodka) wheeesskeeeeey

Which includes, Whiskey, bourbon, scotch, gin, rum,
tequila, schnapps, Kahlua among others.