Problems In Russia Mount | Taxes Rise, Criminals Flood Streets, Forest Fires, Stalin Resurrected

Inside Russia ^ | 26/5/24 | konstantin

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Why Stalin?

They saved Lenin’s brain.

They saved the rest of him, too.

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Those are considered different sounds. Russians pronounce foreign and older words with “h” in them as “g”.

That was the way things were done in the past, so the Ukranian "Hohol'" became the Russian "Gogol'". It's different now. Russians trying to sell souvenirs to tourists are always yelling "Army Khat! Army Khat!"

[Adder]

Wow...sounds like here...

[Eleutheria5]

How original./s

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Yep...thats me, pithy AND original.

[Eleutheria5]

I’ve heard both. In yeshiva our lunch lady would say when she was out of something everyone wanted: “I kno khav. Eef I khav, I geev, but I no khav so I no geev.” But if someone was taken to the ER at the hospital, a Russian would say “khee taken to gospital.” The French just elide their H-es, as do Cockneys in England, except they also stick an H at the start of a word that begins with a vowel. So “ ‘arry’s tayken hill, so ‘e ‘as.”