Russian "Verbal Fillers"?

David Burrous dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us
Wed Sep 15 15:46:52 UTC 1999


I like this one:

Ehto vot im'enno vot ehto vot tak.

"C. Fields" wrote:

> 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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