Are you feeling the crisis?

[peacetraveler22]

We see the word "crisis" constantly thrown around in text and news articles, but I want to know the reality of the situation for the average person living in Russia. I understand almost nothing about the financial markets, and my investments are all handled by stockbrokers with expertise in the area. Yet I go to the gas station each week and see the gas prices continually drop, which is great for me given that I commute a very long distance to work now. Travel is also less costly with the strength of the dollar, whereas many Russian friends no longer can afford to go abroad due to the continual decrease in the ruble. So, are all of these stories on LJ simply written by alarmists and pessimists, or do you feel there's a real crisis now in Russia as a result of sanctions and economics, which dramatically impacts your life? If so, in what way? Do you have hope for improvement in 2016?

Comments

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Well, I know the word pizda to be slang for pussy, but I didn't recognize that "pizdets" was a variation of the term, or that it had so many meanings. Thanks for the language lesson! :)

[kichiro-sora.livejournal.com]

Russian mat is very rich, as you probably already guessed. You can see 7 more derivatives prom "pizda" here, all pretty much distinctly different meanings, so the root is just gives it general negative connotation. Wait, some of them, like "пиздато" are totally pozitive. Well, I'm no language specialist :)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pizdec

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

I don't think English curse or slang words are so prolific. I mean words like "fuck" and "ass" can have dual meanings, but not to the same extent as all this Russian mat :))

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Haha, what a lecture above!

Ok, let's raise the bar one level up.

When you cannot say pizdets you can use an euphemism "pesets" which is actually an animal, an arctic fox.

ru. wikipedia. org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%86

Also "polniy", "full" is also a polite word for "fat".

So when you say "polniy pesets" it can mean "fat arctic fox" or "total pizdets".

So don't be surprized when you see this image in a blog (as I did recently).
mdrevers. ru/silver7/img/31.jpg

:))

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

:)

[saccovanzetti.livejournal.com]

You had me pause for a moment to think of "non-slang" word for it. Too complicated for a Russian, really!