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  2. Mat (profanity) - Wikipedia

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    The mat-word "хуй" ("khuy") in Max Vasmer's Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [] (Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language). Heidelberg, 1950–1958. Mat (Russian: мат; матерщи́на / ма́терный язы́к, matershchina / materny yazyk) is the term for vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.

  3. Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Russian is written with a modern variant of the Cyrillic script.Russian spelling typically avoids arbitrary digraphs.Except for the use of hard and soft signs, which have no phonetic value in isolation but can follow a consonant letter, no phoneme is ever represented with more than one letter.

  4. Help:IPA/Russian - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Russian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Russian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Category:Russian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Russian profanity" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M. Mat (profanity) P.

  6. Person Who Knows 3 Languages Puts Rude American In His Place ...

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    Text reads: \"If you make any grammar or pronunciation mistake, however tiny, I will mock you endlessly.\" Judgmental tone conveyed. Text excerpt discussing a judgmental American mocking ...

  7. Russian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Russian vowel chart by Jones & Trofimov (1923:55). The symbol i̝ stands for a positional variant of /i/ raised in comparison with the usual allophone of /i/, not a raised cardinal which would result in a consonant. Russian stressed vowel chart according to their formants and surrounding consonants, from Timberlake (2004:31, 38). C is hard (non ...

  8. Vowel reduction in Russian - Wikipedia

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    In the pronunciation of the Russian language, several ways of vowel reduction (and its absence) are distinguished between the standard language and dialects. Russian orthography most often does not reflect vowel reduction, which can confuse foreign-language learners, but some spelling reforms have changed some words.

  9. Bras d'honneur - Wikipedia

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    Physical demonstration of the bras d'honneur gesture. Bras d'honneur (bras d'honneur; literally "arm of honor") is an obscene gesture used to express contempt.It is roughly equivalent in meaning to phrases like "fuck you" or "up yours", similar to the the finger gesture.