RW say the darndest things

[LatinSwede]

My first time in Ukraine, when I said I wanted to to go get dinner one of the ladies said "okay let's get dressed".  What she meant was to put our coats on.   To me it sounded like I was in longjohns or something.

Though they tend to say funny things, their English is still much better than my Russian.

[Vaughn]

"I gave him the gas" (referring to passing someone on the highway)

"Today I had so many works"

Errant purchase: she wanted shampoo for women who'd color-treated their hair. The box read: For Women of Color

[Son of Clyde]

She has a problem reciting the days of the week and always omits Wednesday.

I asked her this morning if she could recite the alphabet and she did very well but omitted several letters, same with numbers.

 

[catzenmouse]

Sergei always skips Thursday when he recites the days of the week and his ABC song always has "...l, m, n, m, n, p, q..." in it.

[TigerPaws]

Though they tend to say funny things, their English is still much better than my Russian.

True words sir. I think if my lady ever looses her accent I may have to send her back to Russia for a while so she can get it back. As for the little mistakes, those are just some of the things that truly define her and I dearly love them.

 

[START2]

Here's another one I like.  Instead of getting up in the the morning, it's ..stand up. I have really come to enjoy hearing that. I'll hear Ihor knock on the bedroom door and say "mom, it's time to stand up". From what Val says, that's how get up translates .

[Turboguy]

This is not the same kind of thing but I will stick it in here because there is no place for it and it is not worth starting a new thread.   This is more a difference in thinking vs a difference in wording.

I had a gal from one of the smaller cities in Ukraine write me today.  She is about 40 and divorced with a daughter.   She asked me If I could afford to get married and afford to have a wife.  She then said she hoped when she found her husband that he had enough money to once in a while buy her a few new clothes and once in a while go away for a few days.  She said it did not have to be fancy, just someplace with a little nature that would be away from the every day life.

I have a feeling this gal makes about $ 50.00 a month and has no concept of life here.   I think she would not believe some of the ways the gals really get treated when they come over.   When Luda came I took her out shopping with the idea of spending about $ 1000.00 on clothes but she ran out of things she wanted at about $ 250.00

 

 

[Maxx]

Her: "Look! We have little animals" pointing to a small bug walking across the stove.

Her: "What is this?"

Me:  "It is a vaulted ceiling"

Her:  "No it is the roof! It is cheep! It not like me" meaning "I don't like it"

 

When asked by Irina the first RW I wrote to over the phone:

"Do you have hair on your feet?"

I said "No. There is no hair on my feet."

She said "You don't have hair on your feet??" 

 I said "No, but I have hair on my legs..."

She looked up the difference in her dictionary and had a big laugh. 

 

Maxx


 

[groovlstk]

I got this piece of correspondence awhile back and it still makes me chuckle. The girl's father works on a fishing vessel:

The daddy last 12 years floated in the sea, and mum all life worked as the chief accountant.

[facetrock]

Some of my favorites are " flock of people"  " make photo" When she hears me swear I am using what she calls "rubbish words" but she uses them from time to time too:)

[Shadow]

Funny mistakes are not only made by RW. I just got hold of a book of funny Dutch to English translations.

My favourite so far is that iwhat a Dutch female secretary of State told during a speech :

"I am having my first period"

 

[youngmeema]

How about this one today " you are fukky duddy" instead of fuddy duddy.

[youngmeema]

Also, she was in the gym, and after a good workout she proclaimed " I am wet and satisfied!!" instead of sweating and sore.  And, you make me exciting!

[RussianGal]

.. Alina keeps saying I am "so modern"
Any clue what she means by that?
In context... "Angel, you are so romantic... so modern."..

I`d say she means 'contemporary', 'up-to-date person'.

[bgreed]

A lady I dated in Odessa used the phrase "It's impossible" or "It's not so impossible" if there was a slight lull in conversation "Teeellll me!"

[TigerPaws]

Also, she was in the gym, and after a good workout she proclaimed " [color="red"]I am wet and satisfied!!" instead of sweating and sore.  And, you make me exciting!

[/color][color="blue"][size="4"]LoL,

 I have that very same expressions before and I will be Damed if I am going to correct her
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[Michelangelo]

My girlfried wrote me yesterday to tell me, quote--
 "I am painting my hair."

:?

[RussianGal]

My girlfried wrote me yesterday to tell me, quote--
 "I am painting my hair."

Yes, because 'dying my hair' phrase probably does not make sense to her.

[Michelangelo]

Yes, but now it does :-)

[Wayne]

Oksana is a hairdresser.  She always uses the word "paint" instead of dye hair.  I think the girls working at the salon "paint" each others hair when business is slow.  Anyway, I have photographs of Oksana with many different hair colors.  It seems that the FSU women that I have known all like to experiment with different and sometimes unusual hair colors. 

[Voyageur]

Vaccinations are "pricks".....well that is what they used to be called, until I told her what that word was commonly used for in the US.

[DogFace]

Ukrainian Fiancee:

     Duve cover = comforter condom.

     Plug it out

     1st date at dinner trying to say she was hungry... eat me.  (That's when I kew she was a keeper.)

 

US President (after New Orleans was flodded):

     "once we finish de-watering the city..."

 

[ccarten]

My wife had a new one I hadn't heard before;

 

She needed something off a top shelf a few days ago, and asked me 'Please come here, I need your highs'.

 

[babe_in_rusland]

My wife came out with a new one recently.  As we exited a  restaurant parking lot, we drove over a speed bump in the  driveway.  She exclaimed, "In Russia they are calling this a lying policeman!"   She then proceeded to rattle off the Russian word that conveys this  expression, literally a policeman lying in the road.

[catzenmouse]

Elena told me about that lying policeman one time. Funny stuff. Here's  one she just said that I just about hurt myself not laughing at in  front of her.

We were cooking and I asked her for some fresh garlic, she handed me some and said "Here are three gloves of garlic."

Ken