skorogovorka

[fox]

which is russian for "tongue twister" (literally something more like "fast-saying"), but actually sounds like a dance step. warning: i continue not to have cyrillic capabilities, so this is going to be in roman letters and look accordingly ridiculous:

Karl u Klari ukral koralli, a Klara u Karla ukrala klarnyet.

(Karl stole Clara's coral necklace, and Clara stole Karl's clarinet.)

Comments

[sithdragn.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that one's even tougher in Russian than English. *untwists tongue*

skorogovorka -- is the stress the 'go'? What a cool word. I always love a little Russian tidbit. :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

stress on the "vo". so it's actually pronounced "skuhruhgaVORkuh." spelled, of course, CKOPO^OBOPKA , where the "^" is the capital russian gamma that i can't reproduce here (and can't use lowercase "g", because that's our 'd' sound, as you know).

:-)

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

But why haven't you yet cyrillicized your computer? S'easy! (Especially as you're running XP, if I'm not mistaken.) Go. Cyrillicize.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

here we go, now. the word is скороговорка, and the sentence goes like this:

Карл у Клары украл кораллы, а Клара у Карла украла кларнет.

this keyboard is going to kill me.