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
--
David Burrous, Coordinator of Foreign Languages &
Foreign Exchange Students
e.mail: dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us
Phone: 303-982-5927
Fax: 303-279-8525
Foreign Language home page:
http://204.98.1.2/isu/language/index.html
Foreign Exchange home page:
http://204.98.1.2/isu/forex/index.html
Address: Jefferson County Public Schools
Tanglewood Resource Center
13950 West 20th Avenue
PO Box 4001
Golden, CO 80401-0001
More information about the SEELANG
mailing list