Russian "Verbal Fillers"?

C. Fields cef at u.washington.edu
Wed Sep 15 14:14:39 UTC 1999


On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Udut, Kenneth wrote:

> Hello again, SEELANGers!
>
> For example, in English, we have phrases like
> "You know", "like", "but that's how it goes", "so they say",
> "and so on", "etc", etc.

One of my personal favorite ways of saying "and so forth and so on" was a
(I don't know how you spell it--I only ever heard it spoken) "tyra pyra
tyra pyra."

And then for "that's how it goes" -- "vot takie pirogi!"

Emily Fields



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