Russian Cellphone jargon

[Josh Wilson]

I have heard this often around Moscow and concur - I've always heard it as
four syllables.  

I have also had it explained to me at least once that "sms-ka" is a bit
"provincial" - that the proper phrasing is "otprivt' sms" and that "sms"
should never decline "because it is not Russian."  (This from a Russian grad
student studying linguistics - so could just be she is soapboxing the issue)

JW

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[mailto:SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of Elizaveta Moussinova
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Cellphone jargon

4 syllables: es-em-es-ka (ýñ-ýì-ýñ-êà)! :)
There is a verb, too: esemesit' / SMSit' (ÑÌÑèòü). "îòýñåìåñèòü âñåì
äðóçüÿì".

Google has 7 180 000 for CMC (written in Cyrillic).

Liz



Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> Elizaveta Moussinova wrote:
>
>> ... An sms message is an "sms-ka". "Otpravit' sms / sms-ku".
>
> Three syllables, not four, right? «???????», ? ?? «????????»?
>
> But Google has 9,400 hits for the latter and only 32 for the former...
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