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Yes, I forgot the third word for "to fart"! There's a commonly used verb pUkat' (funny parallels with "to puke"). Pukat' is a nice little word. 

Then there's a rougher, more brutal word p'Erd'et' (even more funnier parallels with words like perdue or perduto). 

And yes, there's also a rather archaic word bzd'et' that I forgot about. Because in today's life bzd'et' usually means in a slang "to be afraid of smb/smth". 

As of descriptors, there're no such nouns for pukat' - probably, pukatel' or pukach, but I've never heard such words. Perdet' gives the word p'erdUn. Bzd'et' gives "bzdun". Bzdun also means both the person that farts and has a slang meaning of "a coward". 

Perhaps, you meant the word "bzd'El'nik" - that's something strange and slang-wise, though. But such a word exist.

Though, perhaps, I've missed something in my in-brain vocabulary. 

Davesax1965 wrote: (At this point, I'd say "ni za chuoy sobachi" and you'd correct me with "ni za khuy sobachi", of course.  ;-)

 

Wow, such complicated swear skyscrapers!  I personally would correct you with "ni za xuj sobAchij",  because I try to mark accents in the words and give the most accurate pronunciation possible. Not sure, it is so necessary, though. 

The sequence of Russian swear words that I have personally made once is: "N'e, nu n'e job zhe tvOju, nA xuj, sUka, bl'at', mat'!" which more or less corresponds to the phrase "Why not say f*ck you to you".

There's another song by the band Leningrad that demonstrates the use of the word bl'ad' (wh*re): 

Davesax1965 wrote: I'm OK with d'ed, which gets Anglicised to "dy-ed" over here. I'm told I sound OK speaking Russian, but you're right, the consonant pronunciation makes it sound very different when a Westerner says it (especially from the SuShAh ;-) ) I'll never quite get my pronunciation correct. You absolutely have to think "Russian" to sound Russian. ;-)

I'd rather say, Seh-Sheh-Ah, it's how I pronounce it ;-). As for thinking, for example, Russian kids traditionally do not see the difference between the terms "letter" and "phoneme". They even try to pronounce the (non-existent in reality) corresponding sound to the letter "soft sign", something like very short [ j ]... Also, many Russians would feel shocked when they get to realize that their letters for ts and ch actually represents two sounds each, not one. Nobody thinks of the sounds ts and ch this way, usually - because there's one letter for each. Also, by the way, the verb realizovat' in Russian means not "to realize", but "to implement", "to make real", "to make concepts material" so to say. 

Davesax1965 wrote: Absolutely right about the Komitet, ditto the history of the Great Purges as seen from an internal Russian perspective. (I got detained by the FSB at Sheremetievo once. Accidentally ripped my visa in half. They were quite nice about things, considering. Ya tikho sral v shtany.)

 

As a citizen of Ukraine, I can tell a few words on the Holodomor issue, the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933. Certainly, in the Soviet times until 1988-1989 that topic was hidden and forbidden. However, even after that I personally have never heard any real life talks about it from my relatives, grandparents, friends' relatives, etc. My granma once told me that there was oh so terrible famine. However, NOBODY in our family has died from it, as far as I can see. NOBODY of our family had been anything more than an ordinary poor peasant in 1932-33, and mysteriously nobody died... Which leads me to believe that the whole thing is a bit overreacted, hyped and overblown... Reckoning the permanent Russian chaos, many people simply realize now that there was such a mess, such a mix of everything back then in the 30s that it is almost impossible to track down what's really happened with that famine. I have no doubt that the Ukrainian people died from hunger, I also have no doubt that Stalin was cruel and cynic - but I find it unbelievable that he actually wanted to kill millions of potential working hands in times when the country desperately needed new workers for the newly built factories... Plus to that, not a special secret that the people who created the term Holodomor (in Canada in 1978, if I remember right) wanted it to look and sound like Holocaust, so they even continuously try to increase the number of victims. Most moderate evaluation is 3.5 million people, at maximum. But Ukrainian sources pretend to say it was 6 mln (sic), 10 million, or so... In result, the tragedy obtains geopolitical and political overtones. 

Davesax1965 wrote: Westerners do not understand Russia, and vice versa. I've had some very interesting discussions with Russians (in Russia) about a number of subjects, I thought I understood Russian history having studied it for years at University. No, not really, I have the vaguest idea of facts, figures and general happenings from a country which disappeared for three generations. ;-)

 

Well, you can also say it translated directly: Я не имел времени подумать об этом. But, yes, I see what you're saying. 

Russians also find (expert level) English complicated. 

 

 

and this video about Russians abroad (since 2:15 there begins English speaking) 

Nobody here is failing to grasp what you’re claiming.  Likewise I’m sure nobody has missed that you’ve been asked repeatedly to substantiate your extraordinary claims, and instead replied first with obfuscation, then evasion, and now insults.  It’s not even original; you’ve resorted to the same lines to which every peddler of nonsense retreats when challenged.

Does it not maybe reveal something to you about these things you have chosen to believe that you simply cannot engage with sceptics by providing evidence to substantiate your claims?  This is how real science works; you literally make my point for me when you fail to do this.

Seriously.  You’re an adult human being who is pretending on the internet that the future can be predicted with magic playing cards, and that you possess secret knowledge somehow too complicated for the wider world to comprehend.  Is this really what you want to be doing with your life?